socrates. As a discussion which the mind has with itself about whatever it is investigating. Now, I’m not making this assertion as an expert: it’s just that the image I get of thinking is that the mind is simply carrying on a conversation: it asks itself questions and answers them, saying yes or no. And when it reaches a conclusion (which may take quite a long time or may involve a sudden leap), stops being divided and starts to affirm something consistently, we call this its belief. So I call a belief a statement, but one which is not made aloud to someone else, but in silence to oneself.
