Sentence examples for be mistaken about whether from inspiring English sources
These people are paid way too much to be mistaken about whether poison is effective.
No such cases could be immediately confirmed, and at least a few authors appeared to be mistaken about whether their books could be viewed.
They imply that an agent can be mistaken about whether she is really reasoning — and so can be mistaken about whether the power of her motives reflects the fact that she has the authority to determine her own actions.
But he can be mistaken about whether a given object is the means to what he ultimately desires.
It is all too easy for me to be mistaken about whether my life is eudaimon (the adjective from eudaimonia) not simply because it is easy to deceive oneself, but because it is easy to have a mistaken conception of eudaimonia, or of what it is to live well as a human being, believing it to consist largely in physical pleasure or luxury for example.
In a speech at Georgetown University last month, George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, acknowledged for the first time that intelligence agencies might have been mistaken about whether Iraq possessed illicit weapons.
"This evidence is relevant to establish that an individual who, over the course of decades, intentionally intoxicated women in a signature fashion and then sexually assaulted them while they were incapacitated, could not have been mistaken about whether or not Ms. Constand was conscious enough to consent to the sexual contact," the district attorney's office argued in a court filing.
"This evidence is relevant to establish that an individual who, over the course of decades, intentionally intoxicated women in a signature fashion and then sexually assaulted them while they were incapacitated, could not have been mistaken about whether or not Ms. Constand was conscious enough to consent to the sexual contact," the District Attorney's Office argued in a court filing.
We will consider whether moral claims are objectively true in the sense that individual people can be mistaken about what is morally right and wrong.
If I feel hungry or see my friend, I cannot be mistaken about who the subject of that experience is, even if I can be mistaken about it being hunger (perhaps it's really thirst), or about it being my friend (perhaps it's his twin), or even about whether I am actually seeing him (I may be hallucinating).
