For it is possible for a believer to have a false opinion through a human conjecture, but it is quite impossible for a false opinion to be the outcome of faith.
Nor is it possible for one who has a false opinion of God, to know Him in any way at all, because the object of his opinion is not God.
A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
But still an old difficulty recurs; we ask ourselves, 'How isfalse opinion possible?
Nor can any man be cured of a false opinion, for there is no such thing; but he may be cured of the evil habit which generates in him an evil opinion.
Thus we are involved once more in the dilemma of saying, either that there is no such thing as false opinion, or that a man knows what he does not know.
A false opinion, it may be said, is frequently found to have clustering around it a multitude of excellent associations, which do far more good than the false opinion that supports them, does harm.
That a false opinion, considered in relation to the general mental attitude, may be less hurtful than its premature demolition IV.
An optical deception is an illusion; a false opinion is a delusion.
In another way a thing can be called false, by way of cause--and thus a thing is said to be false that naturally begets a false opinion.
Hence a thing is not always said to be false, because it resembles another thing; but only when the resemblance is such as naturally to produce a false opinion, not in any one case, but in the majority of instances.
To the argument which is urged on the contrary, likeness or defective representation does not involve the idea of falsity except in so far as it gives occasion to false opinion.
For if all things are either known or unknown, there can be no opinion which is not comprehended under this alternative, and so false opinion is excluded.
Do we not speak of false opinion, and say that one man holds a false and another a true opinion, as though there were some natural distinction between them?
How there can be false opinion--that difficulty still troubles the eye of my mind.
It is therefore impossible that he can form a false opinion.
But to form a false opinion, he must err in one or other of these four ways.
If indeed a man ascribed to any subject a predicate which was non-existent, this would be evidently a false opinion.
False opinion consists in wrongly identifying present sensations with past impressions 169 Sokrates refutes this assumption.
Yet he denies the possibility of false opinion; for falsehood is that which is not, and therefore has no existence.
He is the imaginary impersonation of false opinion.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "false opinion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
