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Error
Overview
action or proposition which is inaccurate or incorrect, that could result in failure or deviation from the intended performance or behaviour
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The definition of error is as follows: An error is an error about a specific object, only in case the purpose, imperfectly defined by the vague idea at the instant when the error is made, is better defined, is in fact, better fulfilled by an object whose determinate character in some wise, although never absolutely, opposes the fragmentary efforts first made to define them.[202] But in relation to the absolute…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
The chapter “III. THE CRITERION OF TRUTH AND ERROR” is titled for Error; names Error several times.
At the next lecture we will see whether we can agree with the poets in their conception of the meaning of psychological errors. THIRD LECTURE THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ERRORS (_continuation_) At the last lecture it occurred to us to consider the error by itself alone, apart from its relation to the intended act with which it had interfered, and we perceived that in certain cases it seemed to betray a meaning of its own. We…
Sigmund Freud, Introductory lectures on psycho-analysis
The chapter “SECOND LECTURE THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ERRORS” is titled for Error; names Error several times.
Errors of memory are distinguished from forgetting and false recollections through one feature only, namely, that the error (false recollection) is not recognized as such but finds credence. However, the use of the expression “error” seems to depend on still another condition. We speak of “erring” instead of “falsely recollecting” where the character of the objective reality is emphasized in the psychic material to…
Sigmund Freud, Psychopathology of Everyday Life
The chapter “ERRORS” is titled for Error; names Error several times.
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Part of Religious naturalism.