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Meanings of false belief in English

Portuguese
falácia

A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning.

        falácia
        Usage of false belief in English
        1
        But it was built upon a false belief, and it is ended.
        Montezuma's Daughter
        2
        It was not true, but the false belief provoked the wars.
        New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, ...
        3
        But the facts render it easy to dispel this false belief.
        Edison: His Life and Inventions
        4
        Dua is banned in Vietnam and categorised as a false belief.
        Reuters
        5
        Derived from false belief that each race had own blood type.
        The new yorker
        6
        During the night of the 18th my persistent dread became a false belief- adelusion
        A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography
        7
        There are many other sources of false belief besides self-importance.
        The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
        8
        It comes from long and uninterrupted usage, and from the false belief of the ignorant.
        Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
        9
        You promised on a false belief: they will not bind you to such a promise.
        The Disowned — Volume 06
        10
        There was no false belief to which he did not seem willing to give hospitality.
        Sermons on Biblical Characters
        11
        This, too, he now saw was a false belief.
        Joyce of the North Woods
        12
        This false belief can now be used in the future when you consciously reflect about heights.
        Human
        13
        We vehemently rejected the tired, widely held, but false belief that the public service is bloated.
        The South African
        14
        Meanwhile, Bristol spent the night in the false belief that the secret was still his own.
        Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 04 (of 15), English
        15
        This is a noble way of escaping from fear, but is still based upon false belief.
        The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
        16
        The current study directly compared the results of the ' false belief' and 'self' tasks in individual subjects.
        Pubmed
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