Look up FALSE, false, or falsehood in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. False or falsehood may refer to: False (logic), the negation of truth in classical...
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A false positive is an error in binary classification in which a test result incorrectly indicates the presence of a condition (such as a disease when...
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In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually...
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A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another party. The term...
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A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning...
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A false dilemma, also referred to as false dichotomy or false binary, is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are...
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In religion, a false prophet or pseudoprophet is a person who falsely claims the gift of prophecy or divine inspiration, or to speak for God, or who makes...
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False imprisonment or unlawful imprisonment occurs when a person intentionally restricts another person's movement within any area without legal authority...
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The generic name False Dmitry (also Pseudo-Demetrius, Russian: Лжедмитрий, Lžedmitrij) refers to various impostors who passed themselves off as the deceased...
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A false premise is an incorrect proposition that forms the basis of an argument or syllogism. Since the premise (proposition, or assumption) is not correct...
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In quantum field theory, a false vacuum is a hypothetical vacuum state that is locally stable but does not occupy the most stable possible ground state...
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False Hope or False Hopes may refer to: "Hope Torture (False Hope)", a 2013 song by Song Ji-eun from Hope Torture False Hope, a 2017 EP by Kevin Garrett...
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False pregnancy (or pseudocyesis, from the Greek pseudes "false" and kyesis "pregnancy") is the appearance of clinical or subclinical signs and symptoms...
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False attribution may refer to: Misattribution in general, when a quotation or work is accidentally, traditionally, or based on bad information attributed...
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False helleborine is a name is used in different parts of the world to describe several different plants of either the Orchid family or the Lily family...
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False cognates are pairs of words that seem to be cognates because of similar sounds and meaning, but have different etymologies; they can be within the...
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False balance, known colloquially as bothsidesism, is a media bias in which journalists present an issue as being more balanced between opposing viewpoints...
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The false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) is a species of oceanic dolphin that is the only extant representative of the genus Pseudorca. It is found...
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In logic, false or untrue is the state of possessing negative truth value and is a nullary logical connective. In a truth-functional system of propositional...
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A false accusation is a claim or allegation of wrongdoing that is untrue and/or otherwise unsupported by facts. False accusations are also known as groundless...
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False colors and pseudo colors respectively refers to a group of color rendering methods used to display images in colors which were recorded in the visible...
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False coral may refer to many species of snakes, including: several species of the genus Erythrolamprus: Erythrolamprus aesculapii, a mildly venomous...
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Trump made tens of thousands of false or misleading claims. The Washington Post's fact-checkers documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during his...
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In Marxist theory, false consciousness is a term describing the ways in which material, ideological, and institutional processes are said to mislead members...
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The phrase false god is a derogatory term used in Abrahamic religions (namely Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, the Baháʼí Faith, and Islam) to indicate...
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The name false morel is given to several species of mushroom which bear a resemblance to the highly regarded true morels of the genus Morchella. Like...
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A false awakening is a vivid and convincing dream about awakening from sleep, while the dreamer in reality continues to sleep. After a false awakening...
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The false gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii), also known by the names Malayan gharial, Sunda gharial and tomistoma, is a freshwater crocodilian of the family...
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The false cobra (Malpolon moilensis), or hooded malpolon, is an opisthoglyphous snake found in parts of Africa and the Middle East. The name "false cobra"...
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A false truffle or a hymenogastrale is any species of fungus that has underground fruiting bodies that produce basidiocarps resembling the true truffles...
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