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Misdirection

noun
1.
An incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge.
2.
Incorrect directions or instructions.
3.
Management that is careless or inefficient.  Synonym: mismanagement.
4.
The act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something.  Synonym: distraction.





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"Misdirection" Quotes from Famous Books



... idea appropriate to the facts: the idea of Mechanical cause, which is Force, and the substitution of vague or inapplicable notions, involving only relations of space or emotions of wonder.' This is doubtless true; but the word 'neglect' implies mere intellectual misdirection, whereas in Aristotle, as in Goethe, it was not, I believe, misdirection, but sheer natural incapacity which lay at the root of his mistakes. As a physicist, Aristotle displayed what we should consider some of the worst of attributes ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall


Words linked to "Misdirection" :   instruction, direction, commission, management, distraction, revision, misdirect, charge, screwup, alteration


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