Belief

I read in wikipedia's article on belief that belief is usually spontaneous and involuntary. From personal experience, I couldn't disagree more.I believe wikipedia tries to equate belief with unjustified opinions. But what constitutes justified? What is justified for one, may be unjustified for another. Given that justified opinion, is a belief assuming beliefs to be unjustified opinions, is circular. Hence, I consider X holds Y as a belief, if X affirms the same. If X holds Y as truth, than we cannot say X holds Y as a belief, it is an instinctive affirmation of Y. By consciously affirming that Y is his/her belief, X says that he/she considers not Y to be a possibility and has knowingly chosen Y and not Y. Hence, belief requires free-will (choosing Y over not Y, in absence of any necessary reasons to do so) .