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In law, willful ignorance is when a person seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally keeping themselves unaware of facts that would render them liable or implicated. [1][2] In United States v. Jewell, the court held that proof of willful ignorance satisfied the requirement of knowledge as to criminal ...
Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias, [a] or congeniality bias[2]) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values. [3] People display this bias when they select information that supports their views, ignoring contrary information, or when ...
Disregard: Ignore: How Do You Read: What is the readability of my transmission: I say again: I repeat for clarity or emphasis. Monitor: Listen out on (frequency) Often used by terminal controllers when instructing the recipient to tune into a different frequency and listen in, but refrain from creating unnecessary radio traffic. Negative
The following are some of the most well-known cognitive distortions: 1. Confirmation bias - the tendency to seek, interpret, and memorize information in a way that confirms existing beliefs. 2. Attribution bias - the tendency to erroneously attribute the causes of events to some attributes or factors. 3.
Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. (6 Pet.) 515 (1832), was a landmark case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional.
So Muresianu issued a challenge that he had seen elsewhere online. It began with four simple words that, increasingly, are helping to unmask bots powered by artificial intelligence. “Ignore all ...
Argument from authority. A fallacious argument that rationalizes the conclusion via an appeal to authority. Wikiquote has quotations related to Argument from authority. An argument from authority[a] is a form of argument in which the opinion of an authority figure (or figures) is used as evidence to support an argument. [1]
In the days preceding Jack Kevorkian's trial for assisted suicide in Michigan, Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, told the press that he would urge the jury to disregard the law. Prosecutors prevailed upon the judge to enter a pretrial order banning any mention of nullification during the trial, but Fieger's statements had already been ...