Sentence examples for tendency to mistake from inspiring English sources
Burgess believes that we have a tendency to mistake ignorance for innocence.
First, there was a tendency to mistake communication of a message for the implementation of a policy.
Starck himself seems like a bit of a pain in the rear, or maybe he simply suffers from that odd French tendency to mistake clowning for wit.
The passive bystanders in this study succumbed to what's known as "pluralistic ignorance"—the tendency to mistake one another's calm demeanor as a sign that no emergency is actually taking place.
Mitch Seavey fought off a wave of gloom on the initial descent from Kaltag toward the coast, resisting his addled mind's tendency to mistake tree branches for doors — and assumed the lead at Unalakleet, with two hundred and fifty miles to go.
In "November: The End of Myth," from 1985, he scolds himself for his tendency to "mistake such things for signs / and for our sustenance". A hedge apple fallen on a car's hood is "not the body / of a green, malignant thought, neither omen nor even / punishment for our evening's joy". The presumptuous foisting of significance upon the natural world is a less visible human trespass.
Human tendency is to mistake correlation with causality - we like situations where, if this happens, that happens.
The ambition is incredibly high, and the tendency may be to mistake the artist's seriousness for pathos in the subjects he paints.
The formal representation of these statements provided insight into their underlying logical structures; at the same time, it helped to dispel certain philosophical puzzles that had been created, in the view of the formalists, through the tendency of earlier philosophers to mistake surface grammatical form for logical form.
In his classic book The Arrogance of Power, published in 1966 in the midst of another unnecessary American war, he warned against the historic tendency of powerful nations to mistake military might for moral and intellectual strength and, by overreaching in an attempt to impose their views upon the world, to bring themselves to ruin.
In his new book on presidential leadership, the veteran White House adviser David Gergen laments the current state of politics, the ascendance of spin and media manipulation and the tendency of politicians like Bill Clinton to mistake campaigning for governance.
