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Noun

(plural misrepresentations)

Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations.
Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
In map-making, faultiness in a map-projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.

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representationism

Origin

misrepresent +"Ž -ation

misrepresentation - Legal Definition

n

A false statement typically made with the intention to mislead. See fraud.

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But we have always to be on our guard against misrepresentation, exaggeration and falsehood.
Hence the reconstruction of all categorical judgments by merging subject and predicate, either on Brentano's or on Bradley's plan, is a misrepresentation even of normal categorical judgments of existence.
Secondly, it is much more a misrepresentation of categorical judgments of non-existence.
This gross misrepresentation has made hypothesis a kind of logical fashion.
There is perhaps no serious misrepresentation involved in regarding a key-thought of this type, though not necessarily expressed in those verbal forms, as pervading such logic of the present as coheres with a philosophy of the absolute conceived from a point of view that is intellectualist throughout.

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