Sentence examples for error thinking from inspiring English sources

When asked about the growing circumstantial evidence that the separatists shot down the jet in error, thinking it to be a Ukrainian air force plane, Borodai said: "It's a lie and I hope it will be proved as a lie by experts, including international experts who have already arrived on our territory".

Pistorius said he shot her in error, thinking that someone had broken into his home.

He acknowledged a deeper error: thinking of the faculty members as colleagues.

I don't myself think that the argument is especially formidable, exactly, but it does serve to prevent errors of various sorts, such as the error of thinking that deciding what to do is like choosing chocolates from a box, as if the actions between which one is choosing are somehow laid out before one in their full particularity, waiting to be chosen, that is, done.

"I think they are committing a fundamental error in thinking that the policies we are following are weakening France, when in fact these policies are strengthening it," he told Europe 1.

This month at Yale, in lectures titled "Machiavelli's Mistake," he spoke of the error of thinking that a high-performance economy could be based on self-interest alone.

A type II error is thinking something is not true when in fact it is (a "false negative").

But Nintendo's rivals have usually made the error of thinking that to compete with Nintendo they had to beat it in terms of technology.

Then, mulling things over, he comes to realize his error in thinking that he has seen through the veil to the reality beneath.

He contended that Republicans out to roll back the welfare state made a fundamental error in thinking that politicians and their actions drive history.

For those who have never given it much thought (or made the error of thinking our legacy boiled down to Shakespeare, Newton and the Beatles), English common law was, Harry told us, "this country's greatest gift to the world".