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In Sweden, retroactive penal sanctions and other retroactive legal effects of criminal acts due the State are prohibited by chapter 2, section 10 of the Instrument of Government (Regeringsformen). Retroactive taxes or charges are not prohibited, but they can have retroactive effect reaching back only to the time when a new tax bill was proposed ...
Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which facts in the world of a fictional work that have been established through the narrative itself are adjusted, ignored, supplemented, or contradicted by a subsequently published work that recontextualizes or breaks continuity with the former.
In skepticism, postdiction is also referred to as post-shadowing, retroactive clairvoyance, or prediction after the fact, and is an effect of hindsight bias that explains claimed predictions of significant events, such as plane crashes and natural disasters. Accusations of postdiction might be applicable if the prediction were:
"after the fact", "retroactive" Used similarly to "retroactive". Example: "The sentiment that ex post facto laws are against natural right is so strong in the United States, that few, if any, of the State constitutions have failed to proscribe them." —Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson, August 13, 1813 fl. floruit "flourished"
A retrospective or retroactive award is one which is created and then awarded to persons who would have received it before. Alternatively, a slight change to the criteria of an existing award may result in retrospective awards being presented to persons who would have won the award under present rules.
Retroactive may refer to: Retroactive, an album by Grand Puba; Retro-active, an album by Karizma; Retro Active, an album by Def Leppard; Retroactive, a 1997 movie starring James Belushi and Kylie Travis; See also. All pages with titles beginning with Retroactiv; Retroactive law, another term for ex post facto law
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However, choices which are made on a person's behalf in their best interest do show a tendency for choice-supportive memory bias. Random selection: People do not show choice-supportive biases when choices are made randomly for them. [12] This is because choice-supportive memory bias tends to arise during the act of making the decision.