Accident (fallacy)

The informal fallacy of accident (also called destroying the exception or a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid) is a deductively valid but unsound argument occurring in statistical syllogisms (an argument based on a generalization) when an exception to a rule of thumb is ignored. It is one of the thirteen fallacies originally identified by Aristotle in Sophistical Refutations. The fallacy occurs when one attempts to apply a general rule to an irrelevant situation.

For example:

  • Cutting people with knives is a crime. →
  • It is easy to construct fallacious arguments by applying general statements to specific incidents that are obviously exceptions.

    Generalizations that are weak generally have more exceptions (the number of exceptions to the generalization need not be a minority of cases) and vice versa.

    This fallacy may occur when we confuse particulars ("some") for categorical statements ("always and everywhere"). It may be encouraged when no qualifying words like "some", "many", "rarely" etc. are used to mark the generalization.

    Accident (1967 film)

    Accident is Harold Pinter's 1967 British dramatic film adaptation of the 1965 novel by Nicholas Mosley. Directed by Joseph Losey, it is the second of three collaborations between Pinter and Losey, the others being The Servant (1963) and The Go-Between (1970). At the 1967 Cannes Film Festival it won the award for Grand Prix Spécial du Jury. It also won the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association.

    Plot

    Stephen, a married Oxford tutor in his forties, has two students: the rich and likeable William, of whom he is fond, and a beautiful, enigmatic Austrian named Anna, whom he secretly covets. William also fancies Anna and hopes to know her better. Stephen, while his wife is away having their third child, looks up an old flame in London and they sleep together. Returning home, he finds that his pushy colleague Charlie has broken in and is using it for sex with Anna. Her tryst discovered, she tells Stephen privately that she is getting engaged to William. Excited at his good fortune, William says he will call round to Stephen's house after a party that night. As William is too drunk to drive, Anna takes the wheel and crashes the car outside Stephen's gate. Upon finding the accident, Stephen pulls Anna from the wreckage and hides her upstairs while he calls the police. When they have gone, he forces himself on her although she is still in shock and then takes her back to her rooms. He comes by in the morning to find a bemused Charlie who cannot prevent Anna from packing to go back to Austria.

    Accident (1985 film)

    Accident is a 1985 Indian Kannada language film directed by Shankar Nag. The film starred his elder brother Anant Nag and wife Arundhati Nag in lead roles. It was considered a landmark film in Kannada cinema.

    The film won the National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues at the 32nd National Film Awards in 1985. It also won multiple awards at the 1984-85 Karnataka State Film Awards including the award for First Best Film.

    Cast

  • Ananth Nag as Dharmadhikari
  • Shankar Nag as Ravi
  • Arundhati Nag as Maya Rani
  • Ashok Mandanna as Deepak
  • Choodie Shivaram as main Journalist
  • Srinivas Prabhu
  • Ramesh Bhat as Inspector Rao
  • T. S. Nagabharana as Ramanna
  • S.G. Somashekhara Rao
  • Analysis

    Critics call it one of the first films depicting corruption in public life and the futile struggle against it. The film also throws light on the unholy nexus between politicians and media, also focusing on the impact of drug abuse and addiction. The movie is realistic and has a measured pace throughout and the climax leaves audience spellbound. The movie has struck the right balance between commercial and art cinema; "bridge cinema" in the true sense. The film raises questions but refuses to answer them. The movie’s screenplay is its greatest strength.

    Driver

    Senior Executive' may refer to:

    Occupation and activity

  • Driver (person), a person engaged in driving
    • Chauffeur, a person who drives an automobile as a job
    • Motorman, an electric vehicle driver
  • Chauffeur, a person who drives an automobile as a job
  • Motorman, an electric vehicle driver
  • Driver (rank), British army rank
  • Places

  • Driver, Northern Territory, Australia
  • Drivers, Illinois, USA
  • Driver, Virginia, USA
  • Sport

  • Wood (golf), a golf club
  • Driver, a position in water polo
  • Driver, a kind of throw in professional wrestling
  • Technology

  • Driver circuit, in electronics
  • Device driver, a software component used to interact with hardware devices, or used in electronic or pneumatic equipment as a force for cohesive equipment or individual machinery components
  • Transducer in a loudspeaker
  • Transport

  • Driver (sail), a type of sail
  • Driver Group, Australian bus company
  • "SS Empire Driver" or "SS Driver", Empire ship "Driver"
  • HMS Driver, a British Royal Navy shipname
  • HMS Driver (1797)
  • Driver circuit

    In electronics, a driver is an electrical circuit or other electronic component used to control another circuit or component, such as a high-power transistor, liquid crystal display (LCD), and numerous others.

    They are usually used to regulate current flowing through a circuit or is used to control the other factors such as other components, some devices in the circuit. The term is often used, for example, for a specialized integrated circuit that controls high-power switches in switched-mode power converters. An amplifier can also be considered a driver for loudspeakers, or a constant voltage circuit that keeps an attached component operating within a broad range of input voltages.

    Typically the driver stage(s) of a circuit requires different characteristics to other circuit stages. For example in a transistor power amplifier, typically the driver circuit requires current gain, often the ability to discharge the following transistor bases rapidly, and low output impedance to avoid or minimize distortion.

    Device driver

    In computing, a device driver (commonly referred to as a driver) is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer. A driver provides a software interface to hardware devices, enabling operating systems and other computer programs to access hardware functions without needing to know precise details of the hardware being used.

    A driver communicates with the device through the computer bus or communications subsystem to which the hardware connects. When a calling program invokes a routine in the driver, the driver issues commands to the device. Once the device sends data back to the driver, the driver may invoke routines in the original calling program. Drivers are hardware dependent and operating-system-specific. They usually provide the interrupt handling required for any necessary asynchronous time-dependent hardware interface.

    Purpose

    Device drivers simplify programming by acting as translator between a hardware device and the applications or operating systems that use it. Programmers can write the higher-level application code independently of whatever specific hardware the end-user is using.

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