Statements {belief} {doxology} can have content about something. Basic beliefs come from infallible, indubitable, or incorrigible propositions or mental states, or they come from personal experience, perception, introspection, memory, or reasoning. Beliefs are propositions that people think are true. Belief existence does not infer content existence.
Pictures are like beliefs, because both relate to world but are not world. Sentences that describe pictures are like expressed beliefs.
Local beliefs justify beliefs {inference to the best explanation} {explanatory coherence}.
All beliefs depend on other beliefs that are valid and appropriate reasons for the belief to be true {positive understanding principle} {principle of positive understanding}.
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