Literary notes about Inaccurate (AI summary)
In literature, the word "inaccurate" has been used in a variety of ways to critique imprecision and to highlight conceptual, historical, or interpretive errors. For instance, authors such as Burgess and Park point out that applying labels indiscriminately—as when calling every human group a "crowd"—is inherently inaccurate [1, 2], while Macdonell observes that even ancient manuscripts may be described as inaccurate despite their historical value [3, 4]. The term also emerges in critical discussions of language and transmission: Herodotus notes factual inaccuracies in textual evidence [5], and Thomas Jefferson criticizes erroneous translations [6], just as literary sources sometimes admit to slight inaccuracies in quoting famous works [7]. Furthermore, in more abstract domains, such as psychology or pedagogy, figures like Freud and Rousseau discuss inaccurate processes or ideas, underscoring the broader intellectual challenges of capturing truth precisely in language and thought [8, 9, 10].
- First of all, it is inaccurate to give the name of crowd indiscriminately to every human group.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - The general use of the word, as is so often the case, is rather inaccurate.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - The term is, however, inaccurate, as Buddhist prose works have also been written in this mixed language.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell - That of the Paippalādas is, however, known in a single birch-bark manuscript, which is ancient but inaccurate and mostly unaccented.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell - Abicht also has made several inaccurate statements, e.g. i. 185, where the MS. has {es ton Euphreten}, and vii.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus - Instead of ῥῆμα γενικώτατον , we now find the erroneous, or, at all events, inaccurate, translation, modus infinitus , and infinitivus by itself.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - * * A slightly inaccurate quotation from Hamlet , Act III, scene I, lines 369-370.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - He will say that this is a case of slight functional disturbance, of an inaccurate psychic act whose causal factors can be outlined.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - I shall take the liberty of making use of a very common, and in some respects inaccurate, comparison, which will serve to illustrate my meaning.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Remember that this is the essential point in my method—Do not teach the child many things, but never to let him form inaccurate or confused ideas.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
