Is it not simply just belief with an A in place of the B? It sounds to me like a self-consciously coined neologism, perhaps related to A's position before B in

Is it not simply just belief with an A in place of the B? It sounds to me like a self-consciously coined neologism, perhaps related to A's position before B in the alphabet, suggesting that aliefs come before beliefs in some sense. EDIT: a brief look at the original paper[0] doesn't give any immediate answers, but it seems to confirm my guess: "Alief is a more primitive state than either belief or imagination: it directly activates behavioral response patterns" [0] http://www.pgrim.org/philosophersannual/pa28articles/gendleraliefbelief.pdf http://www.pgrim.org/philosophersannual/pa28articles/gendler...