belief system

A belief system is a structured set of propositions, values, and assumptions that a person or community accepts as true and uses to interpret experience and guide action. Its parameters: (1) internal coherence — beliefs are linked such that challenge to one propagates through the network; (2) selective acceptance — the system filters new information by congruence with existing beliefs; (3) persistence mechanism — transmitted through teaching, ritual, narrative, and institutional reinforcement across generations. Belief systems are not static catalogs of propositions but living architectures of sense-making that determine what counts as evidence, what questions are worth asking, and which answers are acceptable.[formal: systema credentiarum | substrate: mind | horizon: generations | explicit: no | epoch: 0.01]