We are as mistaken as everybody else".
Those who predicted the imminent overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad were as mistaken as those who said the rebels were too few to sustain a long struggle.
The union is functioning as well (or as badly) as it did before French and Dutch voters rejected the constitution.The efforts by the Germans to use their stint in the EU president's chair to resuscitate the constitution may thus be as mistaken as the fatuous logo they have chosen (above).
The notion that there is a clear line between, on the one hand, the discovery and presentation of scientific facts and, on the other, the discussion of moral issues the idea that moral issues arise only after scientific research is concluded is now widely regarded as mistaken.
Ultimately, therefore, the idea of "mind" is just as mistaken as are ordinary "external objects".
In fact, however, Kant was not as mistaken as it seemed at the time.
Maliki, however, still believes that Iraq is different from Syria, but this could be as mistaken as Gaddafi's belief that he was different from Hosni Mubarak.
Occasionally I do expose holes in my learning, but certainly I am rarely as mistaken as Harry F. Rosenthal, of Associated Press, in a recent reference to Henny Penny under the headline (in the Daily Report) "Henny Penny was right: Sky is falling in many ways". "Henny Penny was right," he wrote.
Those who committed this horrendous act and the uncounted others against Sikhs in this country and around the world -- classified as mistaken identity -- may not be concerned about who their victims are; they have been educated to lash out at anyone who is different.
Just as mistaken green policies can damage the poor, mistaken poverty relief policies can damage the environment.
This strikes me as mistaken on multiple levels.
