Example sentences of "not believe that you are " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a necessary condition for such knowledge , 3 ( that if it were not true that you are not a brain in a vat , you would not believe that you are not a brain in a vat ) fails . |
| 2 | We can simplify this conditional as follows : if you were a brain in a vat , you would not believe that you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 3 | It is true that you are sitting etc. , you believe that you are sitting etc. , if you were not sitting etc. you would not believe that you are , and if you were sitting etc. you would believe that you are . |
| 4 | With the conditional theory of knowledge , and the above explication of clauses 3 and 4 , you can be said to know that you are sitting reading because ( 3 ) in the nearest worlds in which you are not sitting reading you do not believe that you are , and ( 4 ) in the nearest worlds in which you are sitting reading you do believe that you are . |
| 5 | ‘ I can not believe that you are the kind of man who can just stop working on something , leaving it half-finished like this . ’ |