They label these excursions, and do not confuse their results with objective experiences.
One classification will assist the botanist in carrying on fruitfully his work of inquiry, and another will retard and confuse him.
Hence it is that we are so apt to confuse together acts of assent and acts of inference.
The multitude of men confuse together the probable, the possible, and the certain, and apply these terms to doctrines and statements almost at random.
This account of Opinion may seem to confuse it with Inference; for the strength of an inference varies with its premisses, and is a probability; but the two acts of mind are really distinct.
He asked leading questions without reserve and abstained from any cross-examination that might confuse the story and expose mendacity.
Comparatively light though the colour may be, it is usually dark enough, unless it be yellow, to confuse the forms of any but the boldest tracery.
A typical form of it is where the blocks are charged with heraldic devices, which may serve to indicate the date, or to confuse one.
The multitude will forever confuse them; but happily that is of no great real importance, for while the multitude imagines itself to live by its false science, it does really live by its true religion.
And in poetry, more than anywhere else, it is unpermissible to confuse or obliterate them.
It is charlatanism, conscious or unconscious, whenever we confuse or obliterate these.
The above summary is by no means perfect, since there are minor differences in each class, which may sometimes rise into such prominence as to confuse the classification.
It should never be used as an emetic in suspected poisoning, as its presence would confusethe investigation.
His confident approach, too, for he was waving his hand as he drew nearer, seemed to confuse the band of Confederates.
The blindfolded player is then spun around so as to confuse his sense of direction.
When players are inclined to confuse the play by hesitating while running through the circle, this privilege of running through is sometimes forbidden, all the chasing being confined to the outside of the circle.
During this part of the play the other ponies remain in their position in the circle, so that the one who is throwing the ball will not confuse them with the riders.
The game may start with the players sitting in consecutive order, or they may change places at the outset to confuse the blindfold player, although the changing of places takes place very rapidly in the course of the game.
One player is blindfolded, placed in the center (on the hub of the wheel), and turned around several times to confuse his sense of direction.
There was a time when the philologists were disposed to confuse languages and races, and to suppose that people who once all spoke the same tongue must be all of the same blood.
Moreover, it has been pointed out by Oddo[177] that the fact of the habitual exaggeration of tic during the very years when chorea is liable to appear is calculated to confuse the issue.
Because most authors feel it incumbent on them to fall in with this nosographical custom, definitions have been proposed whose brevity only serves to confuse the issue.
This argument, fallacious though it be, is likely to satisfy the Republican mind and to animate it to effectiveness; and to confuse and embarrass the Democratic mind, and render it ineffective, if not irresolute.
The plan of those who are hostile to the union of the party is to have two conventions, if it be possible to confuse the public mind as to which really represents the party and its organization.
This observation is made here lest the reader should confuse the natural order, imagined to exist before any application of human categories, with the last conception of that order attained by the philosopher.
To confuse the instrument with its function and the operation with its meaning has been a persistent foible in modern philosophy.
We should not confuse the principle that virtue must somehow secure the highest good (for what should not secure it would not be virtue) with the gross symbols by which the highest good might be expressed at Jerusalem.
To confuse means with ends and mistake disorder for vitality is not unnatural to minds that hear the hum of mighty workings but can imagine neither the cause nor the fruits of that portentous commotion.
To confuse intelligence and dislocate sentiment by gratuitous fictions is a short-sighted way of pursuing happiness.
For not only are instances required, but these must be arranged in such a manner as not to distract or confuse the mind, i.
His letters are long, and filled with explanations of the situation, which only served to confuse his superiors.
In the face of all this, it is to confuse and mystify the ordinary reader to draw such a picture of the last century as Mr. Pattison has drawn here.
We must guard against mistakes or confusion in our own minds; it is very easy to confuse the child, and he will become inattentive and careless if he is unable to catch our meaning.
Sometimes the pseudonyms are absolutely misleading, as in the frequent speaking of squares as boxes, which must, of course, confuse the child as to the real nature of a plane.
But on the other side, we must not confuse idealism with fantasy or utopism.
Hooker ought not to have had time to write a proclamation, but ought to pitch into the rebels, surprise and confuse them, and not wait for them.
The orders written by such a staff as Hooker's might have been written in such a way as to confuse the God Mars himself.
Let not, however, the reader confuse the use of brown, as an expression of a natural tint, with its use as a means of getting other tints.
We need not, therefore, expect to find any single poet or painter representing the entire group of powers, weaknesses, and inconsistent instincts which govern or confuse our modern life.
This something, this great Water Spirit, I must not confuse with the waves, which are only its body.
And, what's more, you've been using telepathy so long that when you try to communicate with nothing but words you only confuse yourself.
An overseas call to New Scotland Yard in London took a little more time, and several arguments with bored overseas operators who, apparently, had nothing better to do than to confuse the customers.
He would confuse them occasionally on so short acquaintance, but a college examiner would give him a passing grade.
It is thus in order to state as clearly as possible what it now is; then, so that no one may confuse it with what it is not, to run over some of the old ideas which resemble it.
This is social inheritance, or the product of environment--easy to confuse with that of heredity and very difficult to separate, especially in the case of mental traits.
This tendency of the Chinese to confuse Roman Catholics and Protestants is further illustrated by the note addressed by Minister Wen Hsiang to Sir R.
Ada had been too long in society for this announcement to confuse or hurry her, had no other cause of excitement arisen; as it was, the superb repose, usual to her manner, was disturbed.
Or did she confuse love with the gratitude she could not help feeling toward the man who had freed her and her mother from anxiety, and won for their lifelong enjoyment the possession of this little paradise?
The major continued his narrative, and in order not to confuse Timea by looking at her, sought some other object in the room on which to fix his eye.
