. Assent to or acceptance of the truth of propositions, statements or facts (but see CONFIRMATION (end).). The proposition forms the content of the belief, and to believe is usually regarded as in some sense involving, and perhaps as standing in a...

Statements like ‘The X believe that…’ or ‘The Y believe in…’ used to abound in *ethnography. Ethnographers regarded belief as an integral part of *culture, with whole peoples being thought uniform and consistent in...

Sammāditthi, the first step on the Noble Path is often translated ‘right belief’. More correct rendering is ‘right view’. Belief in Bsm. must result from apprehension based on reason, not on mental obedience to the...

A principle accepted as true but without sufficient evidence to prove it. This is a form of ideology, often taken as knowledge, but it is not verifiable by the normal means of verifying...

Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise (argument) to be true without necessarily being able to adequately prove its main contention to other people who may or may not agree. if (window.showTocToggle) {...

They both did it. They cast aside what everyone thought were their core beliefs in the interests of the election. Bill Clinton, who kept saying he didn't want to hurt the children, put over a million of them in danger by promising to sign...

One of several fundamental changes that FASB will work on during the coming year will be the movement of the GAAP hierarchy and of the authority for GAAP to FASB's own standards. Currently, the GAAP hierarchy is in auditing standards and the GAAP authority...

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"The article, to be published in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, says Huckabee asked the question after saying he believes Mormonism...

Quotations from Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, assassinated Thursday in Rawalpindi."I told him on my oath in his death cell, I would carry on his work." — Recalling a visit to her father, former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, before his execution in 1979.___"The primary...

In our society much of our knowledge is based on our belief, or the beliefs of our ancestors. It is very rare that there is knowledge without some sort of belief in some aspects and parts of the knowledge (theory or idea). This proves that knowledge and belief are in the same field and chain of thoughts and theories.

Beliefs affect our capacity to reason logically and to recognize valid arguments. Many types of beliefs include faith, religious belief, superstition, tradition, and moral belief. Of these, religious belief is the most important in affecting logical reason.