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Belief can only occur where acceptance is not compelled, for if [acceptance] is compelled, then belief is not required to accept that thing. Belief is thus the acceptance of some thing as being provisionally true where:

- contradictory evidence exists which throws doubt upon or compels the rejection of the thing being accepted as truth.
- insufficient evidence exists to compel or suggest acceptance of the thing as truth.

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Alternatively an [agent] can be attributed a [belief] in X when it acts[1] as if X is true. This sense of the word seems to be more common (in North America) and in the philosophical literature I've read.

--DavidLucifer

[1] Assuming that the act is sincere, that is, without deception or sarcasm.

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