Word Net
wrongnessNoun
1 inappropriate conduct [syn: inappropriateness]
[ant: appropriateness]
2 contrary to conscience or morality [ant:
rightness]
3 the quality of not conforming to fact or truth
[syn: incorrectness] [ant:
correctness,
correctness]
English
A 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.Ethics
In ethics, wrong is the opposite of right. In a relativist consideration of ethics, the factors affecting the way different cultures determine norms for what is wrong form part of the subject-matter of anthropology.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).
References
- Willis, Hugh. Principles of the Law of Damages. The Keefe-Davidson Co.: St. Paul, 1910.
wrongness in Arabic: غلط
wrongness in Simple English: Wrong
wrongness in Swedish: Falskhet