false belief

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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

Do you think a part of that false belief lives on in modern gynecology today?

From Salon • Mar. 18, 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

Delusion, de-lū′zhun, n. the act of deluding: the state of being deluded: a false belief: error.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various