<metaphysics, gnoseology, philosophy of science, logic, theology, ethics> affirmation of, or conviction regarding, the truth of a proposition, especially when one is not (yet) in possession of evidence adequate to justify a claim that the proposition is known with certainty. Recommended Reading: Kenneth Malcolm Sayre, Belief and Knowledge: Mapping the Cognitive Landscape (Rowman-Littlefield, 1997) and Michael Williams, Groundless Belief (Princeton, 1999).
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