idolum
Britishnoun
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a mental picture; idea
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a false idea, fallacy
Etymology
Origin of idolum
C17: from Latin: idol
Example Sentences
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When does it become an idolum specus, the unreasonable pertinacity of a too sceptical mind?
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Such a group of ideas is what Bacon would have called a scientific fetich or idolum theatri.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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