unfounded belief

Unfounded belief is a distortion of the spiritual faculty.

We need to know your intentions-considering your unfounded beliefs, you see."

Their theories resulted in sometimes legitimately concerning, but often wildly unfounded beliefs.

According to Frazer, man begins with an unfounded belief in impersonal magical laws.

Prejudice can also refer to unfounded beliefs and may include "any unreasonable attitude that is unusually resistant to rational influence."

Superstition is an unfounded belief.

Unfounded belief in quick warfare.

Specifically, Hume, at least to some extent, argued that religious and national hostilities that divided European society were based on unfounded beliefs.

Pics or GTFO That seems like an unfounded belief without evidence, dude.

This sounds to me like someone so steeped in unfounded beliefs they cant respond with a single argument........

Suspicions against the royal family continued to mount, including founded or unfounded beliefs that Marie Antoinette was writing to her family about confidential military maneuvers.

But unfounded beliefs about sexual abuse and its treatment were not limited to church authorities, who often received what, in retrospect, was very poor advice from the professionals they relied on.

As noted, this intuitive idea relies on a plausible-looking but unfounded belief in the acceptance of a need for unanimously approved principles of justice as in everyone's highest interest.

For the most part humans tend to maintain an optimism bias; an unfounded belief (at least as far as the law of averages goes) that things will pan out well for us.

The "bomber gap" was the unfounded belief in the Cold War-era United States that the Soviet Union had gained an advantage in deploying jet-powered strategic bombers.

After opening in January 1747, the hospital treated almost 300 patients during its first year; the demand for its services stemmed from the unfounded belief that the treatments then available could be effective.

Bajorans were superstitious animals and their unfounded belief in supernatural beings must be eliminated if their backward world ever hoped to be uplifted to the status of a Cardassian protectorate.

And that the belief that Jesus walked on water and turned water into wine with a magical wave of his hand is not "unfounded belief without evidence" does not fall into the same category eh?

The term lunar effect refers to the unfounded belief that there is correlation between specific stages of the Earth's lunar cycle and deviant behavior in human beings that cannot simply be explained by variation in light levels.

The present results shows that the matter created is a fluid with a viscosity near the quantum limit, but is unlike a weakly interacting plasma (a widespread yet not quantitatively unfounded belief on how quark gluon plasma looks).

To the Editor: Re "Pocket of Opposition to Vaccine Threatens Polio Eradication" (Dec. 9): The unfounded belief that polio vaccine can cause infertility has limited acceptance in the Islamic regions of Nigeria.

The former leads in some cases to excessive rigor in religious opinions or practice; in others, to unfounded belief in extraordinary events or in charms, omens, and prognostics, hence producing weak fears, or excessive scrupulosity as to outward observances.

Gould claimed that both theories developed from an unfounded belief in biological determinism, the view that "social and economic differences between human groups-primarily races, classes, and sexes-arise from inherited, inborn distinctions and that society, in this sense, is an accurate reflection of biology."