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As used in the text, what does the word “hold” most nearly mean?
Many early astronomers, working without the aid of telescopes, came to believe that the Earth was the center of the universe. This geocentric model was not a simple guess; it was a conclusion based on the available evidence of the naked eye, which seemed to show the sun and stars revolving around a stationary Earth. For centuries, this was the predominant view, and learned scholars would · *hold · * this belief as a foundational truth of their science, building complex theories upon it.