| 释义 |
mal-obserˈvation
Defective observation.
1843Mill Logic II. v. iv. 387 It is mal-observation, when something is not simply unseen, but seen wrong; when the fact or phenomenon..is mistaken for something else. 1886H. Maudsley Nat. Causes & Supernat. Seemings 50 The common malobservation which, taking note of agreeing, takes no note of contradicting, instances. 1895J. N. Maskelyne in Daily Chron. 29 Oct. 3/4 A charge of either mal⁓observation or collective hallucination on the part of a large number of eminent men. 1895A. Lang in R. M. Dorson Peasant Customs (1968) II. 444 If he denies it, if he says with Lord Kelvin that hypnotism is all imposture and malobservation, I am silenced. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 199/2 Repression of the truth would have to be added as a third to mal-observation and forgetfulness, as a very subtle source of error in testimony to the occurrence of the supernormal. |