FALSE BELIEF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does false belief mean? 

• FALSE BELIEF (noun)
  The noun FALSE BELIEF has 1 sense:

1. a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

  Familiarity information: FALSE BELIEF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALSE BELIEF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

fallacy; false belief

Hypernyms ("false belief" is a kind of...):

misconception (an incorrect conception)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "false belief"):

pseudoscience (an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions)

logical fallacy (a fallacy in logical argumentation)

pathetic fallacy (the fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects; 'the friendly sun' is an example of the pathetic fallacy)

sophism; sophistication; sophistry (a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone)

paralogism (an unintentionally invalid argument)

 Context examples 

A false belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that persists despite the facts, and is not considered tenable by one's associates.

(Delusion, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)