Acceptance

Acceptance is treating a proposition as a premise for reasoning or action, often for a limited purpose, without necessarily believing it to be true.

Belief: Belief is a mental attitude that treats a proposition as true. Unlike acceptance, belief ordinarily involves taking the proposition to be true.
Pragmatic encroachment: The view that practical stakes can affect whether a person knows a proposition. It examines how practical needs shape what propositions are treated as usable.
Proposition: A proposition is the kind of content that can be true or false. Acceptance takes propositions, rather than objects or actions, as its usual contents.
Legal admission: A formal concession of a fact or statement within a legal proceeding. A party may accept a fact for litigation without endorsing every implication of it.
Knowledge: Knowledge is a factive cognitive state in which a subject knows a proposition to be true. Acceptance can guide reasoning without the truth and justification required for knowledge.
Suppositional reasoning: Reasoning that temporarily treats a proposition as true to determine what follows from it. It is a clear case of premise-taking without commitment to truth.
Premise: A premise is a proposition used as support for a conclusion in an argument. Accepted propositions function as premises in inference.
Scientific modeling: The construction and use of simplified representations to investigate systems and explain observations. Modelers accept idealizations for analysis without claiming they describe reality exactly.
Agreement: Agreement is a state of shared opinion or assent between people. Accepting a premise need not express agreement with anyone who asserts it.
Decision theory: The mathematical study of choices under uncertainty, preferences, and possible outcomes. Action often requires accepting working premises about outcomes and probabilities.

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FaithRelated: Faith may involve accepting claims or practices without claiming demonstrative proof.