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Word for right clonclusion, wrong path?
Is there a word for when someone comes to a correct conclusion but they came to that conclusion based on an incorrect assumption. I guess it could just be coincidence but I was looking for something more specific if it existed.
Maybe an example of what I'm talking about will help. Lets say a woman and man are married. She trusts him. She has to go off on a trip for a few days. During this time the man decides to clean up a little. While he's cleaning the house a tube of lipstick rolls out from where it was lost years ago by a previous occupant but he dosen't see it. When the wife returns she finds the lipstick and begins to wonder if her husband is having an affair and confronts him. As it turns out he IS having an affair afterall.
So from this you see what I'm saying..hopefully. She came to the right conclusion, that he was having an affair, but the path to get there was wrong.
Maybe an example of what I'm talking about will help. Lets say a woman and man are married. She trusts him. She has to go off on a trip for a few days. During this time the man decides to clean up a little. While he's cleaning the house a tube of lipstick rolls out from where it was lost years ago by a previous occupant but he dosen't see it. When the wife returns she finds the lipstick and begins to wonder if her husband is having an affair and confronts him. As it turns out he IS having an affair afterall.
So from this you see what I'm saying..hopefully. She came to the right conclusion, that he was having an affair, but the path to get there was wrong.
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Dakota Monroe wrote on 09 Apr 2004: [nq:1]Is there a word for when someone comes to a correct conclusion but they came to that conclusion based on ... [/nq] "lucky". Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor.
- Dakota Monroe wrote on 09 Apr 2004: [nq:1]Is there a word for when someone comes to a correct conclusion but they came to that conclusion based on ...
- [/nq] "lucky".
- Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor.
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Dakota Monroe wrote on 09 Apr 2004:
[nq:1]Is there a word for when someone comes to a correct conclusion but they came to that conclusion based on ... She came to the right conclusion, that he was having an affair, but the path to get there was wrong.[/nq]
"lucky".
Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor.
For email, ehziuh htiw rehpycrebyc ecalper.
[nq:1]Is there a word for when someone comes to a correct conclusion but they came to that conclusion based on ... She came to the right conclusion, that he was having an affair, but the path to get there was wrong.[/nq]
"lucky".
Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor.
For email, ehziuh htiw rehpycrebyc ecalper.
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[nq:1]Is there a word for when someone comes to a correct conclusion but they came to that conclusion based on ... She came to the right conclusion, that he was having an affair, but the path to get there was wrong.[/nq]
Sort of "serendipity"
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?ke
Sort of "serendipity"
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?ke
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Gwilym Calon filted:
[nq:2]Is there a word for when someone comes to a ... I was looking for something more specific if it existed.[/nq]
[nq:1]Sort of "serendipity"[/nq]
Great example of this was the joke told in the early 70s about a team rescuing someone who'd been lost in the jungle for a couple of decades, and his first enquiry is after the health of President Eisenhower...one of t
[nq:2]Is there a word for when someone comes to a ... I was looking for something more specific if it existed.[/nq]
[nq:1]Sort of "serendipity"[/nq]
Great example of this was the joke told in the early 70s about a team rescuing someone who'd been lost in the jungle for a couple of decades, and his first enquiry is after the health of President Eisenhower...one of t
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[nq:1]Is there a word for when someone comes to a correct conclusion but they came to that conclusion based on ... She came to the right conclusion, that he was having an affair, but the path to get there was wrong.[/nq]
Isn't that one a kind of irony?
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Isn't that one a kind of irony?
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