mistheorize

present singular third person mistheorizes · participle present mistheorizing · participle past mistheorized · past mistheorized · alternative mistheorise · alternative mis-theorize · alternative mis-theorise

1. intransitivetransitiveTo theorize incorrectly.

   But then to mistheorize this for a concept of synchronization's 'greater truthfulness' is a confusion that becomes the other side of the (same) coin.

   2013, Peter Gidal, Materialist Film, page 28

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   But I have been disputing this, and I suppose it takes someone like myself, someone brought up speaking English, to question what Western thinkers mainly say about belief and related notions, to maintain that such thinkers misconceive and mistheorize the nature of their own actual concept of belief.

   2019, Michael Slote, Between Psychology and Philosophy: East-West Themes and Beyond, page 12