false belief
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5.6
- noun
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creencia errónea
- Many people hold a false belief that wealth guarantees happiness.
- form false beliefs
- the problem of false belief
So you have all these false beliefs that you're mistaking as reality.
- So you have all these false beliefs that you're mistaking as reality.
- I'm trying to think, are there any other false beliefs that people have?
- There is a massive false belief out there that men don't want to commit.
- But what we're betraying is this false belief that we've had about our self or the world.
- I had very strong but false beliefs that the world was dangerous and I needed to protect myself.
- But Yanaga says they didn't start with false beliefs about women's teeth and then conclude we were inferior.
- Now that small separated limited self, which is really nothing other than a false belief, is given life through the faith we have in it.
- There's a classic test of theory of mine, which is the false belief test that people have used for a long time.
- I think that they had false belief to begin with.
- It's just a fact is that we're so prone to false beliefs.
- And then you're like, OK, but now you have some new false beliefs.
- Death, unmet needs, spiritual problems, false beliefs.
- And a way to think about it is self deception is motivationally biased false belief.
- And I actually had the false belief.
- But typical objections you get right, are false beliefs, money issues, analysis paralysis and pride.
- Usually when I'm, I realize if I'm in an enormous amount of pain of some kind, then I have a false belief.
Examples
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People believe things that are false, and the false beliefs they have are actually not in their interest, and yet still they believe it, you know?
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So people have false beliefs about their ability to control crime or their likelihood to be victims of crime.
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Well, so a lot of successful people that are watching this have this false belief that I held for a long time.
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I had very strong but false beliefs that the world was dangerous and I needed to protect myself.
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When this happens, they form false beliefs about what is good and what is bad.
Academic text (2016) -
There is a massive false belief out there that men don't want to commit.
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I wish to disprove the prevailing false belief that rock music is based on drugs and sex.
Fiction book (2000) -
Their problem is false belief, and the remedy is the method of question-and-answer.
Academic text (2016) -
The Stoics thought that once human beings become rational, they immediately form false beliefs about what is good and what is bad.
Academic text (2016) -
Cults are seen as objectionable because they ensnare participants in false beliefs and values.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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1.0
A wrong idea or belief about something
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4.6
A false idea or appearance that makes you think something is true
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1.0
A wrong belief, calculation, or action
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1.6
When someone does not understand something correctly and this causes a problem
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6.7
A strong false belief that someone still has even when it is not true
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7.2
A wrong belief that comes from bad reasoning
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4.2
An idea that is not true because people understand something wrongly
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6.8
A wrong idea about something
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7.2
A false idea that people think is true
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7.5
A wrong idea about what something means
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7.5
A wrong idea someone has about something
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6.5
A belief based on false information
An idea that is wrong
Antonyms
How False
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an incorrect or mistaken idea' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'false' (incorrect) with 'belief' (an accepted idea), forming a literal adjective+noun phrase. This straightforward compositional pattern is common across languages and should be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
False belief is like holding a broken map: belief is an idea you accept and false means it is not true, so you are following the wrong directions. That's why it means 'an incorrect idea'.