enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Spiritual opportunism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_opportunism

    It creates plenty potential to exploit religious likes and dislikes opportunistically, to advance political, social or business interests. The term spiritual opportunism is also used in the sense of casting around for suitable spiritual beliefs borrowed and cobbled together in some way to justify, condemn or "make sense of" particular ways of ...

  3. Opportunism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunism

    In 19th-century Italian politics, it meant "exploiting the prevailing circumstances or opportunities to gain an immediate advantage for oneself or one's own group". [1] However, it is more likely that the English expression was directly borrowed from the French term, when it began to refer specifically to the opportunist Republicans , since the ...

  4. Charlatan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlatan

    The Pardoner, from the Ellesmere Chaucer. A distinction is drawn between the charlatan and other kinds of confidence tricksters. The charlatan is usually a salesperson of a certain service or product, who has no personal relationship with his "marks" (customers or clients), and avoids elaborate hoaxes or roleplaying con-games.

  5. Goodhart's law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

    Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". [1] It is named after British economist Charles Goodhart, who is credited with expressing the core idea of the adage in a 1975 article on monetary policy in the United Kingdom: [2]

  6. Exploit - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploit

    Exploit means to take advantage of something (a person, situation, etc.) for one's own end, especially unethically or unjustifiably. Exploit can mean: Exploitation of natural resources; Exploit (computer security) Video game exploit; Exploitation of labour, Marxist and other sociological aspects

  7. Pun - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun

    Punch, 25 February 1914.The cartoon is a pun on the word "Jamaica", which pronunciation [dʒəˈmeɪkə] is a homonym to the clipped form of "Did you make her?". [1] [2]A pun, also known as a paronomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. [3]

  8. Exploitation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation

    Exploit (disambiguation) Overexploitation This page was last edited on 24 December 2024, at 18:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  9. Poe's law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

    Poe's law is based on a comment written by Nathan Poe in 2005 on christianforums.com, an Internet forum on Christianity.The message was posted during a debate on creationism, where a previous poster had remarked to another user: "Good thing you included the winky.