Wrong
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wrong or being
wrong is a concept in
law,
ethics, and
science. In a colloquial sense,
wrongness usually refers to a state of incorrectness, inaccuracy, error or miscalculation in any number of contexts. More specifically, being "
wrong" refers to a situation wherein an individual has made an error or misjudgment.
Law
In law, a wrong can be a legal injury, which is any damage resulting from a violation of a legal right. It can also imply the state of being contrary to the principles of justice or law. It means that something is contrary to conscience or morality and results in treating others unjustly. If the loss caused by a wrong is minor enough, there is no compensation, which principle is known as
de minimis non curat lex. Otherwise, damages apply.
Science
A scientific concept is said to be wrong if it can be used to make specific
predictions of the results of
experiments, but those predictions do not correspond with physical reality (i.e. the concept can be
falsified in the
Popperian sense, and has also been shown to be false).
Wolfgang Pauli is said to have coined the phrase "
not even wrong" to describe concepts that cannot be falsified (either because they do not refer to measurable effects, or because they are too incoherent to be used to make predictions).
See also
References
- Willis, Hugh. Principles of the Law of Damages. The Keefe-Davidson Co.: St. Paul, 1910.
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