Misconception It occurs when there is mistaken view or opinion about some fact.

Some people have a mistaken view of it in America.

Yet this seemed a mistaken view of the child.

The Supreme Court had told them to take care; but they should not be rushed, by a mistaken view of the law, into abandoning the effort.

For Heidegger, it is very different from the mistaken view of time as being a linear series of past, present and future.

As a result, only further study of history, not a flight from history, can be used to correct mistaken views of the past.

The mistaken view is that only 'no meaning theism' can secure the future of Christianity.

I fear that this is a mistaken view.

For centuries, doctors used leeches in the mistaken view that they would help balance a patient's body fluids, or "humors."

The mistaken view is that theory refers to ideas which have never been tested.