Belief
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- seeing is believing
- "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." --Through the Looking-Glass
Belief is the psychological state in which an individual is convinced of the truth of a proposition. Like the related concepts truth, knowledge, and wisdom, there is no precise definition of belief on which scholars agree, but rather numerous theories and continued debate about the nature of belief.
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See also
- Charm
- Cognitive dissonance
- Collective belief
- Conversational intolerance (Sam Harris)
- Culture-specific syndrome
- Delusion
- Doxastic logic
- Evil eye
- Expectation
- Faith
- Folk psychology
- Gettier problem
- Idea
- Life stance
- Moore's paradox
- Nocebo
- Observer-expectancy effect
- Opinion
- Placebo
- Propositional attitude
- Propositional knowledge
- Psychosomatic illness
- Religion
- Self-deception
- Spell (paranormal)
- Spirituality
- Subject-expectancy effect
- Sugar pill
- Suggestibility
- Suggestion
- Subjective validation
- Truth
- Thomas theorem
- Ultimate importance
- Unbelieving
- Unintended consequence
- Value (personal and cultural)
- List of sociology topics
- Sociology
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