First, Bentham thought that the common law that allegedly formed the basis of the law of England was confused in theory, dangerous in practice, and in any case incapable of being law in the fullest sense.
In other words, Israel accused defenders of nonmonotonic logic of confusing a theory of defeasible inference (a branch of epistemology) with a theory of genuine consequence relations (a branch of logic).
With polymathic zest, Galison explains the century-old but still confusing special theory of relativity through the cultural history of technology.
But, month by month, speech by awkward speech, she is evolving more fully into an Argentine Chávez, who puts power before country, confuses conspiracy theory with policy, and regards economics and diplomacy as an inconvenience.
Murray seems confused by the theory that he, like Belfast, has enjoyed an upturn in reputation.
"Helen is confused about quantum theory," Messenger says, thrillingly, to a colleague.
Causal theories of the basing relation must not be confused with causal theories of knowledge or justification.
The theory of cognition in Kant's sense however should not be confused with epistemology or theory of knowledge in the contemporary sense, the special theory of justified true belief (or justified true belief plus X, to allow for the Gettier problem about cognitive-semantic luck) with special reference to skepticism.
He will not construct his theory of modality around modal claims that his system entails are confused, and so the theory that he offers will not necessarily square with all of the modal claims that we would advance pre-reflectively.
