Within the doctrine of Fürwahrhalten, Kant distinguishes between cognition, opinion and belief. Belief is a conviction based on subjective grounds. Kant distinguishes between theoretical belief and practical belief, and within the latter he distinguishes between pragmatic belief and moral belief. The notion of negative belief is embedded in the context of an argument intended to show that what moral belief refers to is more than a mere opinion and is based on subjective grounds. If the concept of moral belief is based on man’s moral disposition, it is unavoidable. As a condition, the Gesinnung in us is not subject to contingency, since even the most faithless person does not have the means to escape the fear of God. The moral disposition on which the belief in reason is based is not a contingent disposition, but is rooted in the limits of our capacity and has its seat in the nature of our reason itself.