false belief

Other forms: false beliefs

Definitions of false belief

1. noun

   a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
   synonyms: fallacy

   types:

   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

   astrology, star divination

   a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon

   alchemy

   a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times

   hysteron proteron

   the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved

   ignoratio elenchi

   the logical fallacy of supposing that an argument proving an irrelevant point has proved the point at issue

   petitio, petitio principii

   the logical fallacy of assuming the conclusion in the premises; begging the question

   post hoc, post hoc ergo propter hoc

   the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation

   type of:

   misconception

   an incorrect conception