Sentence examples for errors of thinking from inspiring English sources

In the process, these tutors were alert for "productive" errors of thinking that could be explored in further questioning for the tutee's benefit.

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.

"Standing at the confluence of leylines, we are buzzing," he says, making the common Glastonbury virgin error of thinking that anyone here gives a rat's arse about leylines.

CH I agree that Daniel Craig is a terrific actor, and his combination of toughness and vulnerability is superb, but you've made the schoolboy error of thinking that James Bond is a real person.

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".

Since the saintliness of Gandhi includes an uncanny instinct for sincerity, he will not make the error of thinking that the current agitation is a sign that the western nations are about to embrace the doctrine of non-violence.

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.

But his was a mind of penetration and power, trained upon Aristotle, David Hume, Bishop Joseph Butler, and Richard Whately, and his superficial contempt for logic and dialectic blinded some readers into the error of thinking his mind illogical.

If we look back over the past 20 years, it is pretty clear that, prior to 2007, electricity prices increased pretty much in line with overall inflation: But this is a case where one can easily fall into the error of thinking that correlation equals causation – and certainly Hockey and Tony Abbott have been very good at persuading people to commit that error.

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.

2. They get mad when they feel that their moms and dads are clueless, that is, when you don't really understand what goes on in their lives and you make the dreadful error of thinking that you do.