"mistheorize" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2013, Peter Gidal, Materialist Film, page 28",
          "text": "But then to mistheorize this for a concept of synchronization's 'greater truthfulness' is a confusion that becomes the other side of the (same) coin.",
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          "text": "2014, Helen J. Delfeld, Human Rights and the Hollow State, page 3 passage=So it is either that states often do not practice statehood \"correctly,\" or that we mistheorize the state in that it doesn't do the job some argue is its most basic justification, that of being the best available protection for the people who live there.:",
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          "ref": "2019, Michael Slote, Between Psychology and Philosophy: East-West Themes and Beyond, page 12",
          "text": "But I have been disputing this, and I suppose it takes someone like myself, someone brought up speaking English, to question what Western thinkers mainly say about belief and related notions, to maintain that such thinkers misconceive and mistheorize the nature of their own actual concept of belief.",
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        "To theorize incorrectly."
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To theorize incorrectly."
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        "To theorize incorrectly."
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      "word": "mistheorise"
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