mistaken belief
Erroneous mental conviction
A mistaken belief is a conviction held to be true that is actually false.
The phrase appears frequently in legal and philosophical contexts, where the nature of someone's error matters: His mistaken belief that the gun was unloaded led to the accident.
A mistaken belief may be honest and reasonable yet still wrong.
- misconceptionErroneous belief or understanding
- misunderstandingFailure to grasp meaning
- false assumptionIncorrect foundational belief
- dogmaUnchallengeable official beliefs
- errorFault in communication
jumping to conclusions · pseudoscience · fake news · stereotype · superstition · overgeneralization · groupthink · delusion · wishful thinking · framing effect · misinformation · cultural bias · fallacy · self-deception · cognitive dissonance · knee jerk reaction · taken for granted · fool's gold
- Misconceptionsmisconception, myth, fallacy, misbelief, false assumption
- mental statesknowledge, conscious, mood, anxious, memory
- misunderstandingsmisunderstanding, misinterpretation, misconception, misreading, miscommunication
- fallaciesstraw man, red herring, circular reasoning, ad hominem, fallacy
epistemic accuracy
mistaken belieftruth
Accordance with reality
fact · reality · sound judgment · the facts