The phrase "essentially false" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a statement or idea that is fundamentally untrue, even if it may contain some elements of truth.
Example: "While the report had some accurate data, its conclusions were essentially false."
Alternatives: "fundamentally incorrect" or "basically untrue."
Wild-fish advocates say that the projections being put forth by aquaculturists are based upon an essentially false assumption.
"I mean, the romantic idea that poetry comes from this deep inarticulable ur-stuff is a nice idea, but I think it is essentially false.
I can think of only two times it's happened to me: I read a news story, or even a series of stories, and thought that it contained such extreme exaggerations that it had to be, essentially, false.
Robert A. Kushen, executive director of the Budapest-based European Roma Rights Centre, said that by providing this essentially false choice, "the French are trying to insulate themselves from legal challenge, arguing that those who leave are doing so voluntarily and are not being expelled as a group".
It's like you graduate into this plateau, and you find out everything you were told was essentially false.
The rest of us know better and can see it for the selectively incomplete, essentially false piece of historical revisionism that it is.
In small-bowel capsule endoscopy (SBCE), differentiating masses (ie, lesions of higher probability for neoplasia) requiring more aggressive intervention from bulges (essentially, false-positive findings) is a challenging task; recently, software that enables 3-dimensional (3D) reconstruction has become available.
The first goal is minimizing type I error (essentially a false positive finding or inferring an effect exists when none actually exists) as well as type II (a false negative finding or inferring no effect exists when one actually exists).
The detachment and the superior calm of an autocrat, which Nicholas I tried so often and so hard to display, were essentially a false front.
So to continue cutting funding for buses is essentially a false economy".
Yet, with the most stringent criteria that essentially eliminate false identifications, sometimes there remain cross-links violating the distance limits (Lossl et al. 2014).
