Definitions for "Belief"
Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.
A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
The thing believed; the object of belief.
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a conclusion we reach about how life works, based on what we've observed, or what we've been told about how life works - by parents, primarily, as well as by schools, churches, friends and society at large
a generalisation or decision or conclusion about something
Belief is the second album of the British EBM group Nitzer Ebb. It was the first album recorded with drummer Julian Beeston (who took over from David Gooday), and Flood took over as producer from Phil Harding.
a myth or fairytale that one prefers to hold on to, in spite of common sense or valid evidence, mostly out of some fear of eternal punishment
Readiness to follow common sense 'intuition' (iso 'religion' = readiness to follow 'argumentation'.
a second conscience overruling the normal one, it provides for all expectations of courage
EU citizenship confers the right to protection from discrimination on the grounds of, among other things, belief. This is enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights. (See EU citizenship)
a far different thing from a "suggestion" or a "hypothesis"
a thing beyond reason
An unproven assertion based on one or more fundamental assumptions. The assertion may be unprovable.
an o-pinion that has no teeth
an unguided tour for the mortal man
a priori justifiable when it can be justified independent of experience, yielding a priori knowledge
a continuous command to your brain that tells it how to represent stimuli
a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything else in a person's life
a kind of box, or pen, or frame, which encloses a limited area
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an association wherein one piece of knowledge is equated with another
a generalisation about how the world functions, about others in the world, about the identity, the
an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it
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