Thinking and Believing

You might think (believe) that there is a strong connection between thinking and believing. But it's worth making the distinction prevalent in European languages. "Belief" is an attitude towards a "thought", whereas "thinking" is relating a "thought" to one or more other thoughts. In principle, though not, as far as I know, in practice, belief may be static, a "state" rather than a "process". "Thinking", in the sense of relating or manipulating thoughts, is always, almost by definition, a process.