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  2. False equivalence - Wikipedia

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    The "false equivalence" is not considering the difference in likelihood. Consuming heroin is more likely to lead to future heroin dependence than taking marijuana, even given the assumption that one who begins using marijuana is more likely at some later time to try heroin, than someone who has never used marijuana. [8]

  3. Social inequality - Wikipedia

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    Social inequality occurs when resources within a society are distributed unevenly, often as a result of inequitable allocation practices that create distinct unequal patterns based on socially defined categories of people. Differences in accessing social goods within society are influenced by factors like power, religion, kinship, prestige ...

  4. Hour - Wikipedia

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    The Talmudic hour is one twelfth of time elapsed from sunrise to sunset, day hours therefore being longer than night hours in the summer; in winter they reverse. The Indic day began at sunrise. The term hora was used to indicate an hour. The time was measured based on the length of the shadow at day time. A hora translated to 2.5 pe.

  5. Unevenly spaced time series - Wikipedia

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    Ideally, unevenly spaced time series are analyzed in their unaltered form. However, most of the basic theory for time series analysis was developed at a time when limitations in computing resources favored an analysis of equally spaced data, since in this case efficient linear algebra routines can be used and many problems have an explicit ...

  6. Morganatic marriage - Wikipedia

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    Charles Ferdinand, Prince of Capua (top), with his morganatic wife, the Anglo-Irish commoner Penelope Smyth (left), and their daughter, Vittoria (right).. Morganatic marriage, sometimes called a left-handed marriage, [1] is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which in the context of royalty or other inherited title prevents the principal's position or privileges being passed to ...

  7. Equivocation - Wikipedia

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    In logic, equivocation ("calling two different things by the same name") is an informal fallacy resulting from the use of a particular word or expression in multiple senses within an argument. [1] [2] It is a type of ambiguity that stems from a phrase having two or more distinct meanings, not from the grammar or structure of the sentence. [1]

  8. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    describing something as unequal Greek ἄνῑσος (ánīsos), unequal anisocytosis, anisotropic: ankyl-, ancyl-denoting something as crooked or bent Greek ἀγκύλος (ankúlos), crooked, curved ankylosis: ante-describing something as positioned in front of another thing Latin āntē, before, in front of antepartum: anthropo-human

  9. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense - Wikipedia

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    Every word immediately becomes a concept, in as much as it is not intended to serve as a reminder of the unique and wholly individualized original experience to which it owes its birth, but must at the same time fit innumerable, more or less similar cases—which means, strictly speaking, never equal—in other words, a lot of unequal cases.