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[4] [5] Similar to Finagle's law is the verbless phrase of the German novelist Friedrich Theodor Vischer: "die Tücke des Objekts" (the perfidy of inanimate objects). A related concept, the "Finagle factor", is an ad hoc multiplicative or additive term in an equation, which can be justified only by the fact that it gives more correct results ...
The major exposition of his system is in The New Art of Memory (1812). [2] John Millard, assistant librarian to the Surrey Institution, was the editor of this work, according to Thomas Hartwell Horne, who was Millard's brother-in-law, and who helped him with notes of Feinaigle's lectures.
The following is a partial list of linguistic example sentences illustrating various linguistic phenomena. Ambiguity
A simple sentence structure contains one independent clause and no dependent clauses. [2]I run. This simple sentence has one independent clause which contains one subject, I, and one verb, run.
Sod's law is a more extreme version of Murphy's law. While Murphy's law says that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong (eventually), Sod's law requires that it will always go wrong with the worst possible outcome or at the worst time.
This is a list of longest prison sentences ever given to a single person, worldwide. Listed are instances where people have been sentenced to jail terms in excess of a human lifetime, but effectively the same purpose.
6. Godzilla vs. Hedorah, a.k.a. Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster (1971) Returning to the ecological-parable roots of Ishiro Honda’s 1954 original, Godzilla vs. Hedorah is a Trojan horse of a ...
In mathematical logic, a sentence (or closed formula) [1] of a predicate logic is a Boolean-valued well-formed formula with no free variables.A sentence can be viewed as expressing a proposition, something that must be true or false.