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  2. Wicked problem - Wikipedia

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    Another definition is "a problem whose social complexity means that it has no determinable stopping point". [2] Moreover, because of complex interdependencies, the effort to solve one aspect of a wicked problem may reveal or create other problems. Due to their complexity, wicked problems are often characterized by organized irresponsibility.

  3. Catch-22 (logic) - Wikipedia

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    Alternative treatments should be subjected to scientific testing no less rigorous than that required for conventional treatments. [ 10 ] This definition has been described by Robert L. Park as a logical catch-22 which ensures that any complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) method which is proven to work "would no longer be CAM, it would ...

  4. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    The word nikoli, when stressed on the second syllable, means "never", when stressed on the first it is the locative case of Nikola, i.e. Nicholas; Spanish – cuando las vacas vuelen ("when cows fly") or cuando los chanchos vuelen ("when pigs fly"). Its most common use is in response to an affirmative statement, for example "I saw Mrs. Smith ...

  5. The 3rd Alternative - Wikipedia

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    The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems, published in 2011, is a self-help book by Stephen Covey, also the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. In it, he takes a more detailed look at habit six from that book, "synergize". [ 1 ]

  6. Difficulty - Wikipedia

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    Difficulty or Difficult may refer to: A problem; Degree of difficulty, in sport and gaming; Counter-majoritarian difficulty, in legal theory; Difficult, Tennessee, a community in the United States "Difficult" (song), by Uffie; Hill Difficulty, a fictional place in the 1678 Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress

  7. Jargon - Wikipedia

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    The word may also come from Old French jargon meaning "chatter of birds". [17] Middle English also has the verb jargounen meaning "to chatter", or "twittering", deriving from Old French. [18] The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is the first known use of the term "jargon" in English literature.

  8. Ethical dilemma - Wikipedia

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    A closely related definition characterizes an ethical dilemma as a situation in which every available choice is wrong. The term is also used in a wider sense in everyday language to refer to ethical conflicts that may be resolvable, to psychologically difficult choices or to other types of difficult ethical problems.

  9. VUCA - Wikipedia

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    Volatility is the changing dynamic of social categorization in environmental situations. The dynamic can change due to any shift in a situation, whether social, technical, biological, or anything else. Studies have been conducted, but finding the specific component that causes the change in situational social categorization has proven challenging.