Various conceptions of the essential features of beliefs have been proposed, but there is no consensus as to which is the right one. Representationalism is the traditionally dominant position. In its most common form, it holds

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Beliefs can be categorized into various types depending on their ontological status, their degree, their object or their semantic properties.
Occurrent and dispositional
Having an occurrent belief that the Grand Canyonis

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As mental representations, beliefs have contents. The content of a belief is what this belief is about or what it represents. Within philosophy, there

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Epistemology is concerned with delineating the boundary between justified belief and opinion, and involved generally with a theoretical philosophical study of knowledge. The primary problem in epistemology is to understand what is needed to have

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Mainstream psychology and related disciplines have traditionally treated belief as if it were the simplest form of mental representation and

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• Alief
• Bayesian epistemology
• Collective behavior
• Culture-specific syndrome
• Doxastic attitudes

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Religious belief refers to attitudes towards mythological, supernatural, or spiritual aspects of a religion. Religious belief is distinct from religious practice and from religious behaviours – with some believers not practicing religionand some practitioners not believing

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