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  2. Category mistake - Wikipedia

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    The first example is of a visitor to Oxford. The visitor, upon viewing the colleges and library, reportedly inquires, "But where is the University?" The visitor's mistake is presuming that a University is part of the category "units of physical infrastructure", rather than that of an "institution".

  3. Correction (newspaper) - Wikipedia

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    Newspapers usually have specific policies for readers to report factual errors. Generally, this requires the reader to contact an editor, pointing out the mistake and providing the correct information. Sometimes, an editor or affected reporter will be asked to refer to a note or press release to determine how the mistake was made. [citation needed]

  4. Clerical error - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Ortiz v. State of Florida , [ 2 ] Ortiz had been convicted of possession of less than 20 g of marijuana , a misdemeanor . [ 3 ] However, Ortiz was mistakenly adjudicated guilty of a felony for the count of marijuana possession .

  5. Mistake (contract law) - Wikipedia

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    Collateral mistakes will not afford the right of rescission. A collateral mistake is one that "does not go to the heart" of the contract. For a mutual mistake to render a contract void, then the item the parties are mistaken about must be material (emphasis added). When there is a material mistake about a material aspect of the contract, the ...

  6. The Most Common Password Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them!) - AOL

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    The most common mistakes made when creating passwords. ... For example, passwords like S@lly123 or B*bby226 aren’t going to be strong enough to thwart a hacker.

  7. Mistake of law - Wikipedia

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    Some states make a distinction between a mistake as to the substance and effect of existing laws, and a mistake that the law creates a specific right to act in the particular way. [ 1 ] : 98–99 [ citation needed ] For example: A, the owner of a vehicle, takes it into a garage for repair and when returning to collect it, A finds that the ...

  8. Error (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, it is considered important to distinguish errors from mistakes. A distinction is always made between errors and mistakes where the former is defined as resulting from a learner's lack of proper grammatical knowledge, whilst the latter as a failure to use a known system correctly. [9] Brown terms these mistakes as performance errors.

  9. Medical error - Wikipedia

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    For example, if a doctor fails to order a mammogram that is past due, this mistake will not show up in the first type of study. [22] In addition, because no adverse event occurred during the short follow-up of the study, the mistake also would not show up in the second type of study [ 23 ] because only the principal treatment plans were critiqued.