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  2. Ashcroft v. Iqbal - Wikipedia

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    Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that plaintiffs must present a "plausible" cause of action. Alongside Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (and together known as Twiqbal), Iqbal raised the threshold which plaintiffs needed to meet.

  3. Twiqbal - Wikipedia

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    Second, only a complaint that states a plausible claim for relief survives a motion to dismiss. Determining whether a complaint states a plausible claim for relief will, as the Court of Appeals observed, be a context-specific task that requires the reviewing court to draw on its judicial experience and common sense.

  4. The Great Gatsby - Wikipedia

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    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

  5. Deductive reasoning - Wikipedia

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    On this view, psychology studies deductive reasoning as an empirical mental process, i.e. what happens when humans engage in reasoning. [3] [1] But the descriptive question of how actual reasoning happens is different from the normative question of how it should happen or what constitutes correct deductive reasoning, which is studied by logic.

  6. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

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    The Fifth Circuit gained appellate jurisdiction over the United States District Court for the Canal Zone. On October 1, 1981, under Pub. L. 96–452, the Fifth Circuit was split: Alabama, Georgia, and Florida were moved to the new Eleventh Circuit. On March 31, 1982, the Fifth Circuit lost jurisdiction over the Panama Canal Zone, which was ...

  7. Logical reasoning - Wikipedia

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    Logical reasoning is a form of thinking that is concerned with arriving at a conclusion in a rigorous way. [1] This happens in the form of inferences by transforming the information present in a set of premises to reach a conclusion.

  8. What's really behind Florida's 'ban' on AP psychology?

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    Chad Forbes, a professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University, agreed. He told Yahoo News: “Excluding gender and sexuality-oriented topics from the study of developmental and social ...

  9. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Wikipedia

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    The aphorism "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", according to psychologist Patrizio Tressoldi, "is at the heart of the scientific method, and a model for critical thinking, rational thought and skepticism everywhere". [3] [4] [5] It has also been described as a "fundamental principle of scientific skepticism". [6]