Meanings of erroneous belief in English

This is called the erroneous belief in the existence of external objects.

There is an erroneous belief that magic has died out of the world.

Some of the followers of this so-called erroneous belief were cruelly persecuted in 385 A.D.

The erroneous belief that open access equals "author pays" further muddies the waters.

When your erroneous belief is wrapped up in your value system, it buttresses your sense of self.

They cherished an erroneous belief, however, that there were at least fifteen or twenty of the invaders.

His party's long-term erroneous belief, despite diving membership numbers, is to differentiate itself only marginally from political opponents.

Many researchers have adopted the erroneous belief that where there has been one incident, there must be others.

By this term there has often been understood the unwittingly erroneous belief that the represented action is reality.

Brainwashed into the erroneous belief that paradise lies beneath the belt, we rush about in small circles worrying

It is a popular though erroneous belief, that the red men of America are of austere and taciturn habit.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

During the last decades, study of this species was neglected, in part due to the erroneous belief that it is intrinsically benign.

A type of outcome variable reporting bias in combination with non-blinding of investigators may be responsible for this long held but erroneous belief.

Without a sound spiritual link, many erroneous belief systems become the ground on which perception of self, others and the world is based.

You've lived in the erroneous belief that language, a material thing, can be a vehicle for anything so subtle as thoughts and feelings.