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It will not settle the matter to tell them that they have observed their own mental processes wrongly, and that more careful introspection will show them the non-intuitive character of what they took for intuitions; especially as in many cases I do not believe that the error is one of misobservation.
Henry Sidgwick Schultz, Barton 2006
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A fallacy of misobservation may be either negative or positive; either
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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So he may be excused for not using modern concepts and criteria, but he is not guilty of misobservation, as so many want to make out.
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