Belief
/bəˈlēf/
ʟᴏɢɪᴄᴀʟ
: an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists; intellectual assent; inferred from evidence (reason or experience); willingness to act on a given hypothesis
// moral conviction, value judgment, statement of faith
When you personally believe that certain claims are true, they become beliefs. Our old beliefs (or assumptions control new beliefs.