The Philosophical Review/Volume 1/Summary: Gourd - Du rôle de la volonté dans la croyance
The term belief is used in three senses, (1) Every judgment embraces a belief and every belief is indicated by a judgment. (2) In the narrower sense of constant belief, belief supposes the repetition of the same thought on the same subject. (3) The belief itself becomes the subject of belief, and is judged from the point of view of truth. The will is an essentially practical mental function, which determines, produces, acts. Though necessarily determining its effects, it is itself causeless. Although will cannot determine a judgment, which is made independently of volition when the idea agrees with the idea of being, it can and does determine the terms. If then will can influence a single judgment, it can influence several, causing the same to be repeated each time. Again, when we judge a belief to be true, we pass a judgment, and as every judgment is controlled by the will, the belief in the truth of a belief also becomes a product of volition.