Friday, April 27, 2012

What is a belief?

 

belief - anything within the content of cognition that is held as true.

There is something really interesting about a believed concept. I mean when viewing the idea of a concept in 3 dimensions its as if the figure stretches over the ground like a membrane (see previous definitions relating to concept development). This membrane acts like a filter absorbing percepts and experiences which relate and deflecting the ones that don't.

I have observed that once believed we no longer consider it to be anything but true, rejecting any assertions which reject it.

I am still working on this definition.
definition derived from a number of sources  Merriam-Webster, Visual Thesaurus and one other currently unknown.

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