Under the same head of fallacy (_à dicto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter_) might be placed all the errors which are vulgarly called misapplications of abstract truths; that is, where a principle, true (as the common expression is) _in the abstract_, that is, all modifying causes being supposed absent, is reasoned on as if it were true absolutely, and no modifying circumstance could ever by possibility exist. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)
Lambda Legal fights resulting misapplications of justice, such as discharging targeted students from school rather than addressing bullies, or firing transgender people from work because a coworker complains about who uses which bathroom. ❋ Hayley Gorenberg (2010)
So without further ado, I give you the five best misapplications of Auto-Tunes. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As we wrestle with how to continue punishing the truly guilty while better protecting the truly innocent, let me suggest a compromise measure which, although still imperfect, will go further in safeguarding against misapplications of the death penalty. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Since the Supreme Court hears so few cases, for the most part he wouldn't have a higher court looking over his shoulder to correct his fundamental misapplications of the law. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I would actually be willing to bet that for most Christians males masturbation is considered a more sinful act (though they would not likely admit this) than female masturbation because it's somehow "gayer" (I could go on for pages writing on the colossal misreadings, misapplications and misappropriations of Biblical text regarding homosexuality ... but let's save that for another day). ❋ Unknown (2008)
I am not talking about misapplications of technology. ❋ Doyle (2008)
A century of psychoanalysis and its derivatives and misapplications has legitimised parading our cabinets of horrors. ❋ Papabear (2008)
There is too, a disappointing amount of evidence to support that other great criticism of Po-Mo, the way that its adherents – and in this book Waugh is typical of the species – indulge in an almost gleeful misunderstanding of science, and the fervour with which they indulge in misapplications of those scientific principles to literature and society. ❋ David Hadley (2008)
Today I want to contribute to a correct understanding by excluding two equal and opposite misapplications of the concept to the specific question of contraception. ❋ Mike L (2007)
Ultimately, Kant will also seek to reveal the very specific formal fallacies that vitiate the metaphysical arguments, to demonstrate that (although they have the appearance of soundness) the positions in each case are implicitly grounded in, or deploy, dialectical uses of terms and concepts, misapplications of principles, and conflations of appearances with things in themselves. ❋ Grier, Michelle (2007)
What emerges in the Dialectic is a more complex story, one in which Kant seeks to disclose and critique the “transcendental ground” that leads to the misapplications of thought which characterize the specific metaphysical arguments. ❋ Grier, Michelle (2007)
Professor Chen, I agree with you that these are misinterpretations and misapplications of Genesis, but what would you suggest are the right interpretations? ❋ Unknown (2006)
The hermeneutic of Continuity sets out to draw things back together by insisting that they were never legitimately loosened, far less separated, in the first place: that the discontinuities actually experienced by real live Catholics – those who approved, those who disapproved and the majority who remain absolutely indifferent because they "follow the Pope" – are the consequence of misunderstandings, misinterpretations, misapplications. ❋ Mike L (2006)
"What most likely happened was pedal misapplication." - Ron [Medford], [NHTSA]
"Is that the brake or the gas pedal? I can't tell the difference!" - [Toyota driver] ❋ Allterrain (2011)
