doxastic

From Ancient Greek δοξασία (doxasía, “belief, opinion, conviction”).

• IPA^(key): /dɒkˈsæstɪk/

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doxastic (comparative more doxastic, superlative most doxastic)

1. Of, pertaining to, or depending on opinion; conjectural. Example 1794   T. Taylor tr. Plotinus Five Bks. Introd. 22   Different objects of knowledge were known by different gnostic powers..sensibles by sense, doxastics by opinion. 1801   T. Taylor tr. Aristotle Metaphysics Introd. 54   Subordinate to this is the doxastic energy. 1822   T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis i. 332   Things which may be seen by the eyes, and touched by the hand, and which Plato calls doxastic

• doxastic logic
• nondoxastic
• subdoxastic