English Dictionary

conjunctive error

noun

(textual criticism) An error found in two or more manuscripts indicating that one has been copied from the other, or that both have been copied from a common original.

The conjunctive error in his essay made it difficult to understand his argument.

意味（1）

(textual criticism) An error found in two or more manuscripts indicating that one has been copied from the other, or that both have been copied from a common original.

[…] a conjunctive error is one in which two (or more) witnesses agree, and it constitutes evidence of the parallel descent of those witnesses from a single common ancestor in which the error was originally committed.