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

“There’s some false belief that if the service doesn’t exist, the people won’t be there,” said Alison Eisinger, executive director of the Seattle King County Coalition on Homelessness.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2023

And in Russell’s case, the man bases his true belief about the time on the false belief that the clock he’s looking at is working.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

And again, after mentioning the frequent sudden appearances of domestic varieties, he speaks of "the false belief as to the similarity of natural species in this respect."

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George