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Wrongness

Wrongness meaning

The quality of being wrong; error or fault. | Wrong or reprehensible things or actions.

Example sentences (13)

The wrongness is rooted in the fact that once you allow identifiable police participation in any march that advocates a disputed cause, then you have to allow it for all marches, whatever the cause.

Coroner Brian Sherrard said there had been no recognition from the perpetrators or their representatives of the “utter wrongness” of the attack.

Whatever religious or historical connection Jews may have to the Land of Israel cannot supercede this wrongness, and as a result, Israel as a nation-state should be, according to this line of thinking, abolished or fundamentally reconfigured.

Also his fantastic wrongness on every major economic issue since the Clinton administration.

The people of Berlin had no problem recognizing the concrete wrongness of the wall that corralled them.

But it is not difficult to explain these feelings without saying that wrongness was their cause.

Emotivists think not, claiming that we do not need to postulate the existence of moral "badness" or "wrongness" to explain why considering certain deeds makes us feel disapproval; that all we really observe when we introspect are feelings of disapproval.

He favors a 'journey' model of life, which measures the wrongness of taking a life by the degree to which doing so frustrates a life journey's goals.

He was not questioning the “rightness or wrongness” of it.

Is there any evidence that there is a property of wrongness that some types of acts have?

It is possible that this procedure started before the end of the Mycenaean age, but the idea is almost absent or vague in the Homeric poems, where the interference of the gods is not related to the rightness or wrongness of men's actions.

Normative ethics is distinct from meta-ethics because it examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions, while meta-ethics studies the meaning of moral language and the metaphysics of moral facts.

Some people might think that the strong feelings we have when we see or consider a murder provide evidence of murder's wrongness.