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  2. Finagle's law - Wikipedia

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    Finagle's law of dynamic negatives (also known as Melody's law, Sod's Law or Finagle's corollary to Murphy's law) is usually rendered as "Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment." The term "Finagle's law" is often associated with John W. Campbell Jr., the influential editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later Analog).

  3. Sod's law - Wikipedia

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    Sod's law, a British culture axiom, states that "if something can go wrong, it will". The law sometimes has a corollary: that the misfortune will happen at "the worst possible time" (Finagle's law). The term is commonly used in the United Kingdom (while in many parts of North America the phrase "Murphy's law" is more popular). [1]

  4. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    Hanlon's razor is a corollary of Finagle's law, named in allusion to Occam's razor, normally taking the form "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." As with Finagle, possibly not strictly eponymous.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Hanlon's razor - Wikipedia

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    The adage was a submission credited in print to Ronald M. Hanlon of Bronx, New York , in a compilation of various jokes related to Murphy's law published in Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong! (1980). [1] A similar quotation appears in Robert A. Heinlein's novella Logic of Empire (1941). [2]

  7. Opinion - Democrats must stand up against the bully in the ...

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    About 70 percent have a negative view of Congress, and 85 percent believe elected officials don’t care what the people think. ... It should strengthen the polluters pay principle in U.S. law and ...

  8. Law (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The law of non-contradiction (alternately the 'law of contradiction' [20]): 'Nothing can both be and not be.' [19] The law of excluded middle: 'Everything must either be or not be.' [19] In accordance with the law of excluded middle or excluded third, for every proposition, either its positive or negative form is true: A∨¬A.

  9. You can still be contagious with COVID if you have a negative ...

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    If you get two negative at-home COVID test results 48 hours apart after previously testing positive, you are likely no longer contagious. But how long that will take is "wholly dependent on the ...