Sentence examples for widespread misapprehension from inspiring English sources

But sufficient numbers believe I did, and in cases of widespread misapprehension of meaning, the fault always lies with the writer.

This widespread misapprehension that atheists believe in nothing positive is one of the main reasons secularly inclined Americans — roughly 20 percent of the population — do not wield public influence commensurate with their numbers.

This striking phenomenon which has no parallel in the study of NF justifies Holmes' dictum that "NFU can be understood as the theory of certain nonstandard models of Zermelo-style set theory with automorphisms" There is a widespread misapprehension that Cantor's theorem shows that there cannot be a consistent set theory with a universal set.

Since it was found in tombs, it was evidently a document of a religious nature, and this led to the widespread misapprehension that the Book of the Dead was the equivalent of a Bible or Qu'ran.

There is, for example, a widespread misapprehension that assisted reproductive technology (ART) is a simple and effective solution to infertility problems.

… it was then a straightforward procedure to assign a degree of "fitness" to each gene ….' Countering such widespread misapprehension requires the same dedication to reading Fisher, especially The Genetical Theory, as Fisher applied to reading Darwin, especially The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man.

There are a couple of widespread misapprehensions about the twins, namely that they are Scottish and that they were born rich.

But the view just outlined, though widespread, represents a fundamental misapprehension of Ryle's work.

This was a misapprehension.

This is a fundamental misapprehension.

This is a common misapprehension.