misinvoke
verbEtymology
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To invoke (any sense) in error.
- To rationalize their self-validating procedure, they even misinvoke Thomas Kuhn's notion of "normal science,” apparently unaware that a like misinvocation could even legitimate exorcism and other forms of sheer quackery.
- However, to reduce the work of Smith and Ricardo to one argument each is to overlook the nuances in their arguments and to misinvoke them as the forefathers of a purely economic liberalism.
- And if the very notion of physical time becomes problematic in fundamental physics, as urged by John Wheeler, even the temptation to misinvoke divine creation ex nihilo is altogether undercut.
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