misconfirming

Verb

misconfirm (third-person singular simple present misconfirms, present participle misconfirming, simple past and past participle misconfirmed)

1. 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...1981, Daniel C. Dennett, “A Cure for the Common Code?”, in Ned Joel Block, editor, Readings in philosophy of psychology, page 70