misconfirm

Etymology

From mis- + confirm.

misconfirm means to confirm in error. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.

verb

To confirm in error.“Fodor believes that the everyday, lay explanations of behavior (of both people and beasts) in terms of beliefs and desires are of a piece with the sophisticated information-flow explanations of the neo-cognitivists, so that the self-evident acceptability of "the dog bit me because he thought I was someone else" ensures the inevitable theoretical soundness of something like " the dog's executive ro”