Belief's the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true. Belief, knowledge and epistemology The relationship between belief and knowledge's subtle. Believers in a claim typically say that they know that claim. For instance, those who believe that the Sun's a god will often report that they know that the Sun's a god. However, the terms belief and knowledge are used differently by philosophers. It's a telling point concerning the nature of belief that m… (More on Belief)