False opinion
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 6 anchored passages
deception · depraved opinions · error · false opinion · false opinions · interchanged opinion
in the texts
Theaetetus
The central puzzle of the passage: how a person can hold a mistaken judgment at all, tested through several successive definitions.
What do you mean?
What sort of thing?
And do you define thought as I do?
Letters to Lucilius
Mistaken beliefs about what is good and evil, held to be the underlying cause of vice and error in conduct.
You must bring it about that he knows money is neither good nor evil;
but false opinions about goods and evils are not removed when wickedness has been removed;
Precepts do not take this from us, nor do they overthrow false opinions about goods and evils.