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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a basic misconception of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a fundamental misunderstanding or incorrect belief about a particular topic or concept.
Example: "Many people have a basic misconception of how climate change works, believing it is solely caused by human activity."
Alternatives: "a fundamental misunderstanding of" or "a common fallacy regarding".
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It refers not to a series but to a serial – ie a serialised version – so it's fundamentally wrong, a basic misconception of meaning.
The reply of Bai et al. [ 19] to the Mosquera-Miguel's et al. [ 5] article testifies to a basic misconception of the role of haplogroups in disease studies: " Although haplogroup K is a subclade of haplogroup U in Europeans, most, if not all published articles on haplogroups and disease association do not include haplogroup K within haplogroup U".
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"Any belief that there's some huge amount of cash out there that can be substituted for the missing funds either on the securities side or on the commodities side is a basic misconception," he says.
There's a basic misconception about Goldman, Lehman and Morgan Stanley that they are primarily brokers.
Moreover, basic misconceptions of evolution are consistently endorsed or expressed by a broad range of the public, including adult visitors to natural history museums (Evans et al. 2010), science graduate students (Gregory and Ellis 2009), and medical students (Bishop and Anderson 1990).
Bad gift-giving usually stems from one basic misconception: If it's a video game, it must be for children.
One pair gave an answer that was adequate, although not thorough, while the last pair's response invoked introns, an informative answer, in that it revealed a misconception grounded in a basic understanding of the Central Dogma, concerning the absence of splicing in bacteria.
In fact, much of what we thought we knew about Pavlov has been based on bad translations and basic misconceptions.
A basic principle of Pres.
A common misconception of me is.
This argument is based on a fundamental misconception of science.
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