Word Meanings - MISCONCLUSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An erroneous inference or conclusion. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to MISCONCLUSION)

• ERRONEOUS
  1. Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural. "Erroneous circulation." Arbuthnot. Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision. Sir I. Newman. 2. Misleading;
• INFERENCE
  1. The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction. Though it may chance to be right in the conclusions, it is yet unjust and mistaken in the method of inference. Glanvill. 2. That which inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another
• CONCLUSION
  The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism. He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion. Addison. 5. Drawing
• MISCONCLUSION
  An erroneous inference or conclusion. Bp. Hall.