accepted truth
- axiomSelf-evident starting principle
- dogmaUnchallengeable official beliefs
- gospelSacred choral tradition
- canonAccepted authoritative works
- doctrineEstablished body of teachings
belief · consensus · conventional · wisdom · fact · given · assumption · premise · truism · certainty · orthodoxy · creed · tenet · self-evident · unquestioned · established · undisputed · common knowledge
epistemic status
accepted truthfalsehood
Deliberate untrue statement
lie · disputed claim · untruth · misconception · myth
social consensus
accepted truthheresy
Belief opposing official doctrine
heterodoxy · fringe theory · conspiracy theory · forbidden knowledge · minority view