malobservation
English
Etymology
mal- + observation
Noun
malobservation (plural malobservations)
- An erroneous observation.
- 1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC:
- the cause of failure be malobservation, or simple nonobservation, and whether the malobservation be direct, or by means of intermediate marks which do not prove what they are supposed to prove.
References
“malobservation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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