misinvocation
nounEtymology From mis- + invocation.
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An invalid invocation.
- If the circumstances are not in order, the uttering of a performative is a “misinvocation" and the act is disallowed.1968, James H. Olthuis, Facts, Values and Ethics, page 146:
- 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.1993, Adolf Grünbaum, Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis, page 222:
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- To use an example from Austin, when one promises a donkey to give it a carrot with no intention of doing so, two sorts of infelicities are in play: an insincerity and a misinvocation (23).2015, Randolph Clarke, Randolph K. Clarke, Michael McKenna, The Nature of Moral Responsibility: New Essays, page 231: