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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

mistheorize en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + theorize.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To theorize incorrectly.
    • But then to mistheorize this for a concept of synchronization's 'greater truthfulness' is a confusion that becomes the other side of the (same) coin. 2013, Peter Gidal, Materialist Film, page 28:
    • But I have been disputing this, and I suppose it takes someone like myself, someone brought up speaking English, to question what Western thinkers mainly say about belief and related notions, to maintain that such thinkers misconceive and mistheorize the nature of their own actual concept of belief. 2019, Michael Slote, Between Psychology and Philosophy: East-West Themes and Beyond, page 12:

Forms

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mistheorizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
mis-theorise alternative lexicographic
mistheorise alternative lexicographic
mistheorizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
mistheorized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
mistheorized Tense=Past lexicographic
mis-theorize alternative lexicographic