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  2. Murphy's law - Wikipedia

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    Murphy's law [a] is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.".. Though similar statements and concepts have been made over the course of history, the law itself was coined by, and named after, American aerospace engineer Edward A. Murphy Jr.; its exact origins are debated, but it is generally agreed it originated from Murphy and his team ...

  3. Inevitable discovery - Wikipedia

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    The inevitable discovery doctrine was first adopted by the United States Supreme Court in Nix v. Williams in 1984. [2] [3] In that case, Williams, the defendant, challenged the admissibility of evidence about the location and condition of the victim's body, given that it had been obtained from him in violation of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

  4. Catch-22 (logic) - Wikipedia

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    Catch-22s often result from rules, regulations, or procedures that an individual is subject to, but has no control over, because to fight the rule is to accept it. Another example is a situation in which someone is in need of something that can only be had by not being in need of it (e.g. the only way to qualify for a loan is to prove to the ...

  5. Three Laws of Robotics - Wikipedia

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    The presence of a whole range of robotic life that serves the same purpose as organic life ends with two humanoid robots, George Nine and George Ten, concluding that organic life is an unnecessary requirement for a truly logical and self-consistent definition of "humanity", and that since they are the most advanced thinking beings on the planet ...

  6. Poe's law - Wikipedia

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    The article gave examples of cases such as on 4chan forums with the usage of the OK gesture as a white power symbol and the Trump administration where there were deliberate ambiguities over whether something was serious or intended as a parody, where people were using Poe's law as "a refuge" to camouflage beliefs that would otherwise be ...

  7. 115 Best Things To Write About When You Need Something To Do

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    25. Review makeup products: Pick a specific genre you want to review, like red lipsticks, and mention the reasons why it’s good or not so great by giving examples and comparing different brands. 26.

  8. List of rules of inference - Wikipedia

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    Each logic operator can be used in an assertion about variables and operations, showing a basic rule of inference. Examples: The column-14 operator (OR), shows Addition rule: when p=T (the hypothesis selects the first two lines of the table), we see (at column-14) that p∨q=T.

  9. Law of identity - Wikipedia

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    In logic, the law of identity states that each thing is identical with itself. It is the first of the traditional three laws of thought, along with the law of noncontradiction, and the law of excluded middle.