When Aegeus saw the black sails coming into Athens, he jumped into the sea and drowned, mistaken in his belief that his son had been slain.

This discovery was a major paradigm shift in mathematics, as it freed mathematicians from the mistaken belief that Euclid's axioms were the only way to make geometry consistent and non-contradictory.

In computer simulations of cultural communities, beliefs were found to polarize within isolated sub-groups, based on the mistaken belief of the community's unhindered access to ground truth.

It could be said that he believed that the bridge was safe, but that this belief was mistaken.

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Thus, despite widely held popular belief outside the Orthodox cultures, there is not one bishop at the head of the Orthodox Church ; references to the Patriarch of Constantinople as a leader equivalent or comparable to a pope in the Roman Catholic Church are mistaken.

The gambler's fallacy can also be attributed to the mistaken belief that gambling ( or even chance itself ) is a fair process that can correct itself in the event of streaks, otherwise known as the just-world hypothesis.

According to William Scoresby ( 1820: p. 154 ), referring to the mistaken belief that the Dutch had discovered the island in 1611, Hull whalers discovered the island " about the same time " and named it " Trinity Island ".

Mill tries to explain our mistaken belief that justice is overwhelmingly important by arguing that it derives from two natural human tendencies: our desire to retaliate against those who hurt us, and our ability to put ourselves imaginatively in another's place.

Le Page's description of Moncacht-Apé's route across the continent, which neglects to mention the need to cross the Rocky Mountains, may be the source of Lewis and Clark's mistaken belief that they could easily carry boats from the Missouri's headwaters to the westward-flowing Columbia.

With no other refuge to escape to, Antony committed suicide by stabbing himself with his sword in the mistaken belief that Cleopatra had already done so.

Merriam-Webster notes, " Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective .... however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century.

In addition, certain statements from classical theological liberalism are easily mistaken for preterism, as they hold that the biblical record accurately reflects Jesus ' and the Apostles ' belief that all prophecy was to be fulfilled within their generation.

The phrase prima facie is sometimes misspelled in the mistaken belief that is the actual Latin word ; however, the word is in fact faciēs ( fifth declension ), of which faciē is the ablative.

" The name most likely originated from the somatic " numbing " effect and feelings of dissociation induced by PCP, and has led to the widespread and mistaken belief that the liquid is made up of or contains real embalming fluid.

Common to both theories was the mistaken belief that the female emits seed, and not an egg.

The term of ' risk transfer ' is often used in place of risk sharing in the mistaken belief that you can transfer a risk to a third party through insurance or outsourcing.

* Both stories feature Maria / Juliet's false death and Tony / Romeo's suicidal response to his mistaken belief that his love is dead.

490 – 430 BC ) to support Parmenides's doctrine that " all is one " and that, contrary to the evidence of our senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion.

They are sometimes referred to as goatsuckers from the mistaken belief that they suck milk from goats ( the Latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus ).

Based on his role in suppressing the revolutions of 1848 and his mistaken belief that he had British diplomatic support, Nicholas moved against the Ottomans, who declared war on Russia 8 October 1853.

* A pyramid scheme is a form of fraud similar in some ways to a Ponzi scheme, relying as it does on a mistaken belief in a nonexistent financial reality, including the hope of an extremely high rate of return.

Dr. Rubinow states that “ the Women ’ s Health Initiative study led to the mistaken belief that estrogen replacement therapy is bad for all women.

* In the novel Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction, by Sue Townsend, the protagonist writes to Radio 4 demanding a copy of the rules, in the mistaken belief that it is a real game.

They and their politicians had therefore refused to take part in the Province's institutions in the mistaken belief that Northern Ireland would be ceded to the South.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

Research into several cultures has proven her position to be a mistaken one.

The Southern belle was bred to conform to a subspecies of the nineteenth-century " lady "... For Scarlett, the ideal is embodied in her adored mother, the saintly Ellen, whose back is never seen to rest against the back of any chair on which she sits, whose broken spirit everywhere is mistaken for righteous calm ...

Maria flees to her bedroom, praying that Chino is mistaken.

During the 1947 royal tour of South Africa, Elizabeth's serene public behaviour was broken, exceptionally, when she rose from the royal car to strike an admirer with her umbrella because she had mistaken his enthusiasm for hostility.

As the only daughter in a five child family, Parish acquired the nickname " Sister ," which led to her being mistaken in the press as a nun with a talent for arranging furniture.

Under the mistaken impression that Oscar is homosexual, and therefore a safe companion for his girlfriend Amy ( Campbell ), he asks Oscar to keep an eye on her for him and make sure that she doesn't talk to his wife.

She is completely taken aback when she arrives at the winery, is mistaken for one of the workers — a wine stomper — and ends up in a gigantic grape vat where she has the fight of her life.

With this refusal, Anna, according to Choniates, exclaimed “ that nature had mistaken the two sexes and had endowed Bryennius with the soul of a woman .” According to Ellen Quandahl and Susan C. Jarratt, Anna shows “ a repetition of sexualized anger .” Indeed, Dion C. Smythe asserts that Anna ’ s goals were “ thwarted by the men in her life .” Irene, however, according to Hill, had declined to participate in plans to revolt against an “ established ” emperor.

With her short hair and boy's clothes she is often mistaken for a boy, which pleases her enormously.

When she realised her mistake, she was acutely embarrassed, but Alexander reassured her with the words, " You were not mistaken, Mother ; this man too is Alexander.

Will is allowed in, but her press interviews are still running and he is mistaken for a journalist.

Upon learning that she is Eddie's wife, Johnny leaves in disgust, in the mistaken belief that Joyce was helping her husband all along.

" If one young girl is kept from a loveless, mistaken marriage, if one frivolous nature is checked in her career of flirtation by remembrance of Lady Morris, I shall perhaps be forgiven by the public for raising my feeble voice in answer to the The Woman Who Did ,"

The paper's decision led to some instances of action being taken against those suspected of being child sex offenders, which included several cases of mistaken identity, including one instance where a pædiatrician had her house vandalised and another where a man was confronted because he had a neck brace similar to one a pædophile was wearing when pictured.

It transpired that he had mistaken one of Florence's feet, emerging from the covers at the foot of her bed, for an antler.

France ’ s mistaken attitude of her own position carried matters far beyond what was necessary, and France mobilized.

* Creature Identification: The ability to differentiate between vampires and humans and also from any other creature from the Key, as seen in " Intervention ", when her minions capture Spike under the mistaken impression that he is The Key.

After her capture, she undergoes psycho surgery ( not to be mistaken for " psychic surgery ") to lessen her homicidal tendencies and she also joins the Corps ; during that time she begins a relationship with the Rat that ends with them marrying in the last trimester of her pregnancy.

When Toni accidentally materialized her, Twenty-Nine, easily mistaken for Saati, went on a minor crime rampage until found attempting to expose herself to a group of middle-aged men.

The birth mother was under the mistaken belief that she could not be convicted of kidnapping her natural child, the law having changed weeks earlier.