{
  "id": "believe.cognitive",
  "term": "believe",
  "sense": "cognitive",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "cognitive",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to think that a fact is true",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "knowledge.cognitive",
      "fact.truth",
      "think.cognitive",
      "true.accurate"
    ],
    "interaction": "knowledge and fact together think",
    "novel_properties": [
      "acceptance of truth",
      "cognitive commitment",
      "mental endorsement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2019, NASA engineers believed the Voyager 1 signal was still operational after detecting its carrier wave from 150 AU away.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A doctor believes a patient has Lyme disease after a positive ELISA test and erythema migrans rash in Vermont in summer.",
      "domain": "medicine"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 1668, Francesco Redi believed spontaneous generation was false after observing sealed meat remained free of maggots.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "believe",
    "believed",
    "believes",
    "believing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "added missing constitutive concepts 'think.cognitive' and 'true.accurate' to align record with definition"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-believe.cognitive"
}