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belief, in philosophy, commitment to something, involving intellectual assent. Philosophers have disagreed as to whether belief is active or passive; René Descartes held that it is a matter of will, while David Hume thought that it was an emotional commitment, and C. S. Peirce considered it a habit of action. Compared to faith and probability, the concept of belief has received little attention from philosophers.
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But out of that chaos your belief in your own prudence and sagacity reasserts itself.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
In fine, therefore, Lady Arabella wanted the general belief to be that there was no snake of the kind in Diana's Grove.
The Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram View in context
But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments, and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
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