erroneous

• At a later stage the 'Daily M.il' hit the nail on the head by signalling M. Zola's presence at the Oatlands Park Hotel; but so many reports having already proved erroneous, the 'M.il' was by no means certain of the accuracy of its information, and the dubitative form in which its statement was couched prevented the matter from going further. —  With Zola in England
• Hence it is only possible either that the human economy is by its very nature unfitted to become the object of scientific abstraction and cognisance, or that the abstractions hitherto made have been erroneous--erroneous, that is, not in the sense of being actually out of harmony with phenomena from which they are correctly and logically deduced, but in the sense of being theoretically erroneous, deduced according to wrong principles, and therefore useless both in abstracto and in concreto Of these alternatives only the second can, in reality, be correct. —  Freeland A Social Anticipation
• That leaves the Captain-Commander and Commander Lhary and they oppose Rynst. " —  Scion of Cyador
• Kashmir will do for me - the British will confirm me there, but never in Lahore - " —  Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
• Hence it is only possible either that the human economy is by its very nature unfitted to become the object of scientific abstraction and cognisance, or that the abstractions hitherto made have been erroneous -- erroneous, that is, not in the sense of being actually out of harmony with phenomena from which they are correctly and logically deduced, but in the sense of being theoretically erroneous, deduced according to wrong principles, and therefore useless both _in abstracto_ and _in concreto_. —  Freeland A Social Anticipation

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