Belief is a pseudo-concept always attributed to other people, never oneself.

Evidence

Belief (along with classical ideology) was of course always redolent of a rhetoric of depth, and gave itself out as peculiarly resistant to persuasion or reasoning; its ontological position in the intellectual realm masked, I think, the weirder and more basic feature of this pseudo-concept which was always to have been attributed to other people (even as a believer, “I” myself never really believe enough, or so Pascal tells us). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 831

Categorization

• QUESTION: Could be pushed as a test case for the falsifiability of the cultural-dominant thesis: is ‘we postmoderns cannot truly believe’ itself a periodizable claim or an eternal human structure?