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A pretext (adj.: pretextual) is an excuse to do something or say something that is not accurate. Pretexts may be based on a half-truth or developed in the context of a misleading fabrication. Pretexts may be based on a half-truth or developed in the context of a misleading fabrication.
False pretense applies to situations where the wrongdoer by deceit obtains "title or ownership – or whatever property interest the victim had in the chattel, if it was less than title." [ 3 ] If the victim has an interest is the property less than full title the acquisition of that interest through false representation can be false pretenses ...
Pretense or pretence may refer to: pretext; pretexting (social engineering) "Pretense" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1 "Pretense", a song by Knuckle Puck from their 2015 album Copacetic "Pretence", a song by Jolin Tsai from her 2006 album Dancing Diva; a pretender's claim to the throne; accismus
This column really is about the rewards of declining to live under the bondage of false pretenses and unrealistic expectations. It’s about learning to tell the truth about yourself.
Pretexting is a type of social engineering attack that involves a situation, or pretext, created by an attacker in order to lure a victim into a vulnerable situation and to trick them into giving private information, specifically information that the victim would typically not give outside the context of the pretext. [1]
False precision (also called overprecision, fake precision, misplaced precision, and spurious precision) occurs when numerical data are presented in a manner that implies better precision than is justified; since precision is a limit to accuracy (in the ISO definition of accuracy), this often leads to overconfidence in the accuracy, named precision bias.
The noun "pretender" is derived from the French verb prétendre, [7] itself derived from the Latin praetendere ("to stretch out before", "to hold before (as a pretext)", [8] "to extend [a claim] before" [9]), from the verb tendo ("to stretch"), [10] plus the preposition prae ("before, in front"). [11]
On September 4, 2012, U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled that the MDOC had violated Kosilek's constitutional rights by denying sex reassignment surgery, noting that former Corrections Commissioner Kathleen Dennehy had engaged in "pretense, pretext, and prevarication" to deny the treatment.