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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 ...
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" was first used by John W. Campbell Jr., the influential editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later Analog).
Stein's law: If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. If a trend cannot go on forever, there is no need for action or a program to make it stop, much less to make it stop immediately; it will stop of its own accord. Stevens's power law, in psychophysics, relates the intensity of a stimulus to its perceived strength.
If it can happen (premise). It will happen. (invalid conclusion) Something can go wrong (premise). Therefore, something will go wrong (invalid conclusion). If I do not bring my umbrella (premise) It will rain. (invalid conclusion). Murphy's law is a (typically deliberate, tongue-in-cheek) invocation of the fallacy. [citation needed]
Paul Prather: The larger truth is always, and I mean always, more complicated and colorful than anything Miz Snodgrass taught you in 10th grade.
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]
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