doxastic.

Relating to beliefs or to reasoning about what a person believes.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• doxastic logic
• doxastic state
• doxastic attitude

On the page

The model separates an agent's doxastic state from the facts the agent actually knows.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal / analytical. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Commonness: uncommon (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Collins explicitly specifies relating to belief and belief-based modal logic; do not conflate belief with knowledge. Writing functions: analysis, conceptual distinction.