Sentence examples for mistake of supposing from inspiring English sources

Yet the argument that banks must now be made to operate as instruments of society's wishes is to make the mistake of supposing that they weren't doing so all along.

At the Tate's gala dinner a couple of days before, she says, one woman made the mistake of supposing to Emin that she was taking time off in order "to keep the market at bay" – in other words, that the sabbatical will have a beneficial effect on her work's prices.

This involves the type-error or category mistake of supposing that what distinguishes certain performances from others that are perceptually similar (in one sense of 'perceptual') is the addition of some non-perceptual feature.

Having fallen victim to this mistake, we then make the further mistake of supposing that we can never cognize objects as they are, but only as they appear to be, and we understand this last as cognition of the appearances rather than of the objects.

Peter Duval Smith, writing in Financial Times, also took the opportunity to defend Fleming's work against negative criticism, also specifically naming Paul Johnson and his review: "one should not make a cult of Fleming's novels: a day-dream is a day-dream; but nor should one make the mistake of supposing he does not know what he is doing".

"We cannot make the mistake with Romans of supposing that they were refined, like the Greeks they envied and imitated," he writes near the end of this volume.

My point is that it might be a mistake to suppose that the director of "10,000 B.C". — to mention only the most salient example — should be taken as a reliable guide to history.

It would probably be a mistake to suppose, on the basis of these figures, that either Congress or the Bush Administration is conspiring, in the Mayor's formulation, to "screw" New York.

According to some, this is because it is a mistake to suppose that a theory of public reason or political justification must also justify the deliberative priority of its conclusions.

We think that the reification of "the informational gene" is problematic; it is a mistake to suppose that there is both a physical entity — a string of bases — and an informational entity, a message.

Of course it may be a mistake to suppose that there is just one activity here, and just one aim.