They are more than merely mistaken, they are degenerate.
He tended to dismiss adversaries as fools, rather than as merely mistaken, or half-right.
Democrats, by Mr. DeLay's account, are never merely mistaken, they are unpatriotic or godless or tools of nefarious special interests.
But new culture wars have something in common with old sectarian wars; they can both provide a way for politicians to denounce their adversaries as not merely mistaken, but wicked.
In Mr Mohler's world-view this mounting opposition is not merely mistaken, but a sign of the dark forces of secular thinking that are overturning established religious morals in every area of life.
December 3rd, Mike Huckabee Presidential Forum: Romney repeatedly referred to Michele Bachmann as "Swiss Miss," but denied any knowledge of her Swiss citizenship, insisting that he merely mistook her for the woman who brings him his hot cocoa.
Its numbers reflect a certain (sometimes self-conscious) pride in community, combined with a D.I.Y. aesthetic in which frugality, eco-consciousness and creativity merge or are merely mistaken for each other, depending on the perspective.
On this view, the many attempts to find independent moral principles to justify obligation are not merely mistaken, they are conceptually confused; they exhibit a "symptom of philosophical disorder" (Pitkin 1965, 75).
