词汇 | credulous |
释义 | credulous adjective formaluk /ˈkredʒ.ə.ləs/ us /ˈkredʒ.ə.ləs/ too willing to believe what you are told and so easily deceived轻信的;易上当的 Synonym gullible Opposite incredulous Stupid and silly absurd absurdity absurdly adolescent against your better judgmentidiom dopily dorky dottiness dotty dozily in his/her/their wisdomidiom in someone's infinite wisdomidiom inadvisable injudicious injudiciously uncritical uncritically undiscriminating unintelligent unperceptive Related wordcredulously I do not think I am a particularly credulous person, or one prone to indulge in easy enthusiasms, and I certainly don't believe in painting a fairy picture in glowing colours by way of being encouraging. She was gentle, simple, credulous, and not at all intriguing, and did not try to draw any benefit from a liaison which at best was only temporary. The credulous soldier and his equally simple sister believed this wonderful tale, and pressed their royal visitor to continue to receive their humble hospitality. This sudden revival of the dead may answer for the credulous lovers of marvels, but it would hardly do for a jury of twelve sober-minded and sworn men. Well, I must have a very benevolent face or a very credulous one! Examples of credulouscredulous In a credulous system, both conclusions would be acceptable, whereas in a sceptical system neither of them would. However, even the most credulous sitter balked at the notion of an otherworldly visitor wearing stays. The credulous semantics of an argumentation framework is given by the following definition. Since an argumentation framework could have more than one preferred extension, the preferred semantics is called credulous. In this case, credulous (anti-)explanations and skeptical (anti-)explanations coincide. What do we make of some credulous social scientists taking it seriously? The first one represents a skeptical approach and the second one represents a credulous approach. Throughout the paper, a skeptical/credulous (anti-)explanation is simply called an (anti-)explanation when such a distinction is not important. Second, we provide methods of computing both credulous and skeptical (minimal) explanations through update programs. Interestingly, this calculus is not derived from credulous inference; also, it does not need the given program to be instantiated before reasoning. The final example shows that if we do not allow any rebuts as attacks, then we obtain a strictly more credulous semantics. Alternately, it may stand for credulous humanity or even for the poet himself. In a credulous system, a conclusion is considered acceptable if it follows from some acceptable argument. The three opening chapters expertly sift the credible from the credulous. On the other hand, in the credulous approach we accept conclusions which are included in at least one extension. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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