belief vs premise

belief

noun
  • Mental acceptance of a claim as true. 

  • Religious faith. 

  • One's religious or moral convictions. 

  • The quality or state of believing. 

  • Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered. 

  • Something believed. 

premise

noun
  • A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. 

  • Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced. 

  • A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts. 

  • The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story. 

  • Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted. 

verb
  • To make a premise. 

  • To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows. 

  • To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument. 

  • To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously. 

How often have the words belief and premise occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )