In phenomenology, noesis is an act of consciousness. "Thinking", "loving", "hating", "imagining" are all verbs applying to what minds do. One would never call "loving" a belief, because it is something you do, not something you merely hold to be true.

See also

• Noema
• Phenomenology
• Franz Brentano
• Edmund Husserl
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty