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Example sentences for "misconception"

Lexicographically close words:
mischievousness; miscible; misconceive; misconceived; misconceives; misconceptions; misconduct; misconducted; misconstruction; misconstrue
  1. I have already said something about this misconception under the third and fourth heads, above, but a little more may be helpful.

  2. To call "Don Quixote" a sad book, preaching a pessimist view of life, argues a total misconception of its drift.

  3. They claimed that a great deal of the trouble existing between the producer and the Grain Exchange was due to misconception of the Exchange's methods of action.

  4. Lord Milner's reply was one that could have left no doubt in Mr. Chamberlain's mind as to the gravity of the misconception under which he laboured.

  5. And here we are confronted at once with the fundamental misconception of the British Empire and the British character which has worked deplorable harm in the American national sentiment towards England.

  6. It happens that a precisely reverse notion has (or had until very recent years) some vogue in England, the misconception being an inheritance from the times of the American Civil War.

  7. If we think of faith as leaning, we shall not fall into that starved misconception of it which takes it to be nothing more than intellectual assent.

  8. But we must beware of a common misconception of what the King's work is.

  9. As I find myself embarked on this somewhat long defence of the Turkish people I may as well deal with another popular misconception concerning them.

  10. Like the fallacy of water in the mirage, and the mistake of a serpent in the rope; and alike all other errors appearing as truths, the misconception of egoism is a mere delusion of the understanding.

  11. As knowledge removes the error and fear of the snake, arising from one's ignorance in a rope; so our misconception of the reality of our bodies and their pleasures and pains, is dispelled by our knowledge of truth.

  12. I would not have my heart to be enticed and deceived by the false attachments and affections of this world; all which are as delusive, as our misconception of a snake in a rope.

  13. He told her all that he knew of the whole matter, and he knew almost all there was to know, and he did not spare himself even his misconception of the part she had played, though he softened that as best he could.

  14. There was no ingratitude or misconception here, certainly.

  15. The argument rests upon a misconception of eternity, regarding it as a prolongation of time into the endless past.

  16. Yet it is hoped that examination will show the objections in question to rest either upon false philosophical principles or upon misconception of the doctrine assailed.

  17. It is easy to understand how this misconception will arise, but there is not much danger of opposition on this score.

  18. I would guard against misconception in relation to this Colony Over-Sea by pointing out that all my proposals here are necessarily tentative and experimental.

  19. It may be well at this point to guard against a misconception of this serial order of exposition(14).

  20. More interesting, perhaps, it is to note the misconception of reason and knowledge which grew up.

  21. They would really thus have the misconception they call pantheism or all-one-doctrine, only as the necessary sequel of their misconceptions of God and the world.

  22. For lack of these there was misconception and oversight, and in their stead prepossession by notions of a wholly irrelevant character.

  23. But a discussion of knowledge perverted at the outset by such a misconception is not likely to proceed prosperously.

  24. It is from misconception of this act of reminding one's self of what is known, as a check in some actual inquiry, that arise most of the fallacies about simple acquaintance, mere apprehension, etc.

  25. And this misconception is, I repeat, just the defect from which an analytic presentative realism suffers.

  26. But, admitting that Mr. Malthus has proceeded on the misconception you state, what is the specific injury which has thence resulted to Mr. Ricardo?

  27. Under a strange misconception of Mr. Ricardo's meaning.

  28. Yet it would be a misconception to suppose these to be products of modern English thought.

  29. Great popular delusions prevail as to the causes of the increase of commitments for criminal offences in this country, which I deem it to be my duty to endeavour to dispel.

  30. The demoralisation so strongly felt and loudly complained of in Van Diemen's Land, from the accumulation of criminals, was rapidly taking place in this country.

  31. All such logic is fatuous, and founded upon a misconception of the Theory.

  32. It will be doubtless through a misconception of this principle that the first schism in the Sulphitic Theory arises.

  33. This I conceive to arise from a misconception of the words of William of Jumièges (iii.

  34. Key to Domesday, will find that the singular misconception as to the Dorset Boroughs makes havoc of the whole calculation.


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