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The actual name of al-Jahiz was Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Bahr ibn Maḥbūb. His grandfather, Maḥbūb, was a protégé or mawali of ‘Amr ibn Qal‘ al-Kinānī, who was from Arab Banu Kinanah tribe. [n 1] Not much is known about al-Jāḥiẓ's early life, but his family was very poor.
Queens of the Stone Age (after their song 3's and 7's) 75432 (off-suit) Kansas City, [4] Sympathy Hand (it is the worst hand possible) 6667J. Devil's Convenience Store. 666. The Devil, Lucifer, The Beast, Devil's Area Code, Kotch. 65432.
Fallacies of definition are the various ways in which definitions can fail to explain terms. The phrase is used to suggest an analogy with an informal fallacy. Definitions may fail to have merit, because they are overly broad, overly narrow, incomprehensible, use obscure or ambiguous language, contain mutually exclusive parts, or (one of the most common) be circular.
The second one is also used to denote something unexpected/untimely as much as improbable. Hungarian – The two most often used expressions are majd ha piros hó esik ("when red snow falls"), and majd ha cigánygyerekek potyognak az égből ("When gypsy children are streaming from the sky").
Time loop. The time loop or temporal loop is a plot device in fiction whereby characters re-experience a span of time which is repeated, sometimes more than once, with some hope of breaking out of the cycle of repetition. [1] The term "time loop" is sometimes used to refer to a causal loop; [1] [2] however, causal loops are unchanging and self ...
Synonyms ( French: Synonymes) is a 2019 international co-produced drama film directed by Nadav Lapid, from a screenplay by Lapid and Haim Lapid. It stars Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire and Louise Chevillotte. It had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on 13 February 2019, where it won the Golden Bear, and the FIPRESCI ...
t. e. The observer-expectancy effect (also called the experimenter-expectancy effect, expectancy bias, observer effect, or experimenter effect) is a form of reactivity in which a researcher 's cognitive bias causes them to subconsciously influence the participants of an experiment. Confirmation bias can lead to the experimenter interpreting ...
L'esprit de l'escalier or l'esprit d'escalier ( UK: / lɛˌspriː d ( ə l) ɛˈskæljeɪ /, US: / lɛˌspriː d ( ə ˌl) ɛskəˈljeɪ /, [1] French: [lɛspʁi d (ə l)ɛskalje]; lit. 'staircase wit') is a French term used in English for the predicament of thinking of the perfect reply too late.