Idea vs. Belief

Ideanoun

(philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.

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(obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.

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(obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.

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An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.

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More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.

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A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.

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A purposeful aim or goal; intent

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A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.

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(music) A musical theme or melodic subject.

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The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.

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A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.

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Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.

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A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.

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A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.

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A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.

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A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.

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the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about;

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a personal view;

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an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth;

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your intention; what you intend to do;

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(music) melodic subject of a musical composition;

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a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action

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a mental impression

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an opinion or belief

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the aim or purpose

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(in Platonic thought) an eternally existing pattern of which individual things in any class are imperfect copies.

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(in Kantian thought) a concept of pure reason, not empirically based in experience.

Idea

In common usage and in philosophy, ideas are abstract concepts. Also in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object.

Beliefnoun

Mental acceptance of a claim as true.

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Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.

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(countable) Something believed.

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(uncountable) The quality or state of believing.

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(uncountable) Religious faith.

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(in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.

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Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.

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A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.

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The thing believed; the object of belief.

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A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.

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any cognitive content held as true

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a vague idea in which some confidence is placed;

Belief

A belief is an attitude that something is the case, or that some proposition about the world is true. In epistemology, philosophers use the term to refer to attitudes about the world which can be either true or false.