Concept vs. Belief — What's the Difference?

Concepts are defined as abstract ideas or general notions that occur in the mind, in speech, or in thought. They are understood to be the fundamental building blocks of thoughts and beliefs.

A belief is an attitude that something is the case, or that some proposition about the world is true. In epistemology, philosophers use the term "belief" to refer to attitudes about the world which can be either true or false.

An abstract idea

The mental act, condition, or habit of placing trust or confidence in another

A general idea or understanding of something

Mental acceptance of and conviction in the truth, actuality, or validity of something

A plan or original idea

Something believed or accepted as true, especially a particular tenet or a body of tenets accepted by a group of persons.

A unifying idea or theme, especially for a product or service

Mental acceptance of a claim as true.

Having an experimental or strikingly different design, especially to test or demonstrate new features

Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.

An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.

(countable) Something believed.

Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).

(uncountable) The quality or state of believing.

(generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.

(uncountable) Religious faith.

To conceive; to dream up

(in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.

An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.

An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.

The thing believed; the object of belief.

A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.

Any cognitive content held as true

A vague idea in which some confidence is placed;