false belief

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Pew’s reputation as a trustworthy social research institution has helped fuel the false belief that the “generations” definitions and labels are social facts and official statistics.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2025

“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

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 yet by the crimes to which that false belief led them they almost proved the truth of something very like it.

From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Murray, Gilbert