false belief

Example Sentences

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“I start to absorb this false belief that they put together, and I’m accepting it as a truth,” Perez said years later in a deposition about what happened to his mental state during that interrogation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2024

This false belief is concerning for progress because it is reducing women's willingness to protest the real causes of gender inequality.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

In Dharmakīrti’s case, the nomad believes there is water in the valley based on the false belief that a mirage is an oasis.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

A second problem, as cognitive scientist George Lakoff has shown, is that simply using the word "race," even when criticizing racism, actually reinforces the false belief that human beings belong to fundamentally different groups.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2022

More complete confusion of this false belief is nowhere to be found than in these "Fragments."

From Fragments From France by Bairnsfather, Bruce