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An erosion gully in Australia caused by rabbits, an unintended consequence of their introduction as game animals. In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences, more colloquially called knock-on effects) are outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen.
The normative status of an action depends on its consequences according to consequentialism. The consequences of the actions of an agent may include other actions by this agent. Actualism and possibilism disagree on how later possible actions impact the normative status of the current action by the same agent.
Logical consequence (also entailment or logical implication) is a fundamental concept in logic which describes the relationship between statements that hold true when one statement logically follows from one or more statements.
Over the past decade, the bank has regularly failed to enforce its rules, with devastating consequences for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet, an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Huffington Post and other media partners has found.
The rational consequence relation is non-monotonic, and the relation is intended to carry the meaning theta usually implies phi or phi usually follows from theta.In this sense it is more useful for modeling some everyday situations than a monotone consequence relation because the latter relation models facts in a more strict boolean fashion—something either follows under all circumstances or ...
The actions of a Meridian police officer caught on video require consequences, and the city of Meridian and its Police Department owe the public transparency and accountability.
Text on image about questioning ambulance response, related to entitled behavior and consequences. Text about vehicles being towed, followed by a heart attack emergency, linked to entitled Karens ...
Consequences (Dave Burrell album), 2006; Consequences (Endwell album) or the title song, 2009; Consequences (Godley & Creme album), 1977; Consequences (Joan Armatrading album) or the title song, 2021; Consequences (The Missionary Position album), 2012; Consequences (New York Contemporary Five album) or the title track, 1963; Consequences (Peter ...