Since every case where a conclusion which can only be proved from certain premises is used for the proof of those premises, is a case of petitio principii, that fallacy includes a very great proportion of all incorrect reasoning.
I shall, accordingly, attempt to analyze the process of inference, and the processes subordinate to inference, so far only as may be requisite for ascertaining the difference between a correct and an incorrect performance of those processes.
There may, however, beincorrect generalization when this mistake is not committed; when the investigation takes its proper direction, that of causes, and the result erroneously obtained purports to be a really causal law.
From the Fallacies which are properly Prejudices, or presumptions antecedent to, and superseding, proof, we pass to those which lie in the incorrect performance of the proving process.
It is quite incorrect to say, as has been sometimes said, that the mediæval just price was in no way different from the competition price of to-day which is arrived at by the higgling of the market.
Erotic symbolism is founded on the factor of individual taste in beauty; it arises as a specialized development of that factor, but it is, nevertheless, incorrect to merge it in sexual selection.
Sidenote: An Incorrect Position of the Fingers] Pray how can I correct the fault of bending out the first joints of the fingers when their cushions are pressed down upon the keys?
For example; it is incorrect to say: I am not so tall as him.
In the second column in this list is given the incorrect pronunciation, which we often hear.
Remember that correct spelling is a mark of intelligence and scholarship and that nothing will so detract from the influence of your written work as incorrect spelling.
This is correct, but it is incorrectto say: We settled the quarrel between the members of the Union.
But it is incorrect to say: The price is below cost.
It is incorrect to say: He bought above a hundred acres.
There is nothing that will mark us as uneducated more quickly than bad spelling, faulty punctuation and the incorrect use of capitals.
For example, it is incorrect to say, He told the story to her and I.
Of the size of the chief towns, as the Normans found them, we may form a not incorrectestimate from the Domesday enumeration of houses held of the king or of other superiors[37].
It is also incorrect to say "Iron is the most useful of all other metals," for iron is not one of the "other metals.
One successful teacher conducts the recitation with books open, requiring her pupils to cover the correct sentences with a strip of paper while they explain and correct the faults in the incorrect sentences.
For instance, it is quite incorrect to assume that the snake, when it appears in dreams, has a merely phallic meaning; just as incorrect as it is to deny that it may have a phallic meaning in some cases.
The incorrect theories substituted for correct laws sometimes persist for years until brusque explanations come from without.
It seems as if the reaction were not sufficient for the test-person, something else must always be added, as if what has already been said were incorrect or in some way imperfect.
How can a dream which is notoriously incorrect and meaningless (for teachers are, as is well known, grounded in psychology) produce such effects, such malicious gossip?
But he differed from him in thinking numbers of inhab^{ts} so incorrect a measure of wealth.
The lowermost indentation would have been an incorrect position since it was run into a part of the reproduction of the printed matter.
There are a number of misspellings in the standard writings, and sometimes in the standard you will find words repeated in a correct spelling and at other times with an incorrect spelling.
Footnote 608: It is incorrect to maintain that the Law of Nations has abolished slavery, but there is no doubt that the conventional Law of Nations has tried to abolish the slave trade.
If, for instance, a boundary treaty were based upon an incorrect map or a map fraudulently altered by one of the parties, such treaty would by no means be binding.
On the other hand, it would be incorrect to maintain that their position is in no way different from that of any other individual living within the consular district.
During a period of fourteen months prior to the fatal flight Air New Zealand's ground computer had contained an incorrect geographical reference to the southern waypoint of the journey at McMurdo.
We have known a learner to derive great benefit from having it pointed out to him that certain of his vowel sounds would at once cease to be incorrect if their pitch were altered.
We have before said that if a pupil felt his throat the worse for a lesson in vocal culture, there was something wrong: either the method was incorrect in itself, or the practice was continued too long or carried out too vigorously.
When a professed critic utters what is incorrect beyond amendment, the fault is the more noteworthy, as his professions are louder, or his standing is more eminent.
Our maps were so incorrect that they were found to be worthless before we reached Yorktown.
I soon found that his ideas concerning the cause of the war were as incorrect as were those of most Englishmen at that time.
Newman had for his readers, and his daily habit of deceiving them by sophistries and incorrect assertions, we have it in the remarkable lines which I find at page 123 of his Apologia.
Of their earlier history the reader may find a brief, and not, I believe, veryincorrect account in a work to which this is a kind of sequel.
In East Anglia it is named Fabe, Feap, Thape, or Theab berry, probably by reason of a mistake which arose through an incorrect picture.
Science is correct in holding only in its assumption that it is physical science; incorrect only in its assumption that it is physical science of this plane and globe only.
Religion is correct in its assumption of this higher law of morals; incorrect only in its grasp and explanation.
In the same volume there is a story, Histoire d'une Fille de Ferme, which Turgenev recommended to me more particularly, and which more particularly displeased me on account of the author's incorrect relation to the subject.
It is incorrectto think that such a crisis can cure us of the political and economical calamities which oppress us.
All the central and largest part of the system, which I explored, is therefore quite incorrect on Saunders' map.
The very latest maps of western Tibet give a very incorrect representation of this country, which has never been visited by a European before.
This was said, not in disparagement of the island's only existing history, but rather as a confirmation of the general opinion that the book which does duty as such is incorrect and incomplete.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incorrect" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
