error ***
erroneous belief

He knew his history and his politics-he just happened to have completely erroneous beliefs.

The results were often confusing, and sometimes dangerous when they fed erroneous beliefs of racial superiority.

Also most people rarely encounter the strongest arguments against their erroneous beliefs.

There have been persistent but erroneous beliefs about Matthau's birth name.

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

In contract law, a mistake is an erroneous belief, at contracting, that certain facts are true.

It is not the only erroneous folk-medical belief he holds.

"These spectacular markings gave rise to the erroneous belief that the P-40 series had been used by all twenty-eight countries."

In the chapter, Jefferson relates a series of official erroneous beliefs about nature forced upon people by authority.

Myth is often used to refer to a commonly held but erroneous belief.