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  2. Life chances - Wikipedia

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    Weber also noted that life chances are to certain extent subjective: one's assessment of one's life chances will affect one's actions; therefore, if one believes that one is or can become a respected and valued member of society, that outcome and associated positive results are more likely to become a reality for such a person than they are for ...

  3. Plain meaning rule - Wikipedia

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    The plain meaning rule is the mechanism that prevents courts from taking sides in legislative or political issues. [2] Additionally, it is the mechanism that underlies textualism and, to a certain extent, originalism.

  4. External validity - Wikipedia

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    External validity is the validity of applying the conclusions of a scientific study outside the context of that study. [1] In other words, it is the extent to which the results of a study can generalize or transport to other situations, people, stimuli, and times.

  5. The dose makes the poison - Wikipedia

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    "The toxicity of any particular chemical depends on many factors, including the extent to which it enters an individual’s body." [ 3 ] This finding also provides the basis for public health standards, which specify maximum acceptable concentrations of various contaminants in food, public drinking water, and the environment.

  6. Externalism - Wikipedia

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    A sensory-motor contingency is an occasion to act in a certain way and it results from the matching between environmental and bodily properties. To a certain extent, a sensory-motor contingency strongly resembles Gibson's affordances. Eventually, Noe developed a more epistemic version of enactivism where the content is the knowledge the agent ...

  7. Entity-level control - Wikipedia

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    Analytical techniques, if used appropriately, can serve as a tool in the risk assessment process. Since risk is an outcome of perception, analytical techniques help remove subjectivity, to a certain extent by collation and presentation of data in a systematic manner for assessment of potential impact and likelihood of occurrence or risks.

  8. China's commerce ministry said in a statement that Trump's move "seriously violates" international trade rules, urging the US to "engage in frank dialogue and strengthen cooperation".

  9. Essentially contested concept - Wikipedia

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    Barry Clarke suggested that, in order to determine whether a particular dispute was a consequence of true polysemy or inadvertent homonymy, one should seek to "locate the source of the dispute"; and in doing so, one might find that the source was "within the concept itself", or "[within] some underlying non-conceptual disagreement between the contestants".