 A more interesting idea is to define (semantically) a notion of belief in terms of combinations of pieces of evidence. In van Benthem and Pacuit (2011), the authors propose (roughly speaking) that beliefs should be given by the maximal consistent ways in which evidence can be combined, stating that the agent believes \(\varphi\) if and only if all maximally consistent combination of pieces of evidence support \(\varphi\). More precisely,