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Trilemma, the Glossary

A trilemma is a difficult choice from three options, each of which is (or appears) unacceptable or unfavourable.^[1]

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Anonymity

Anonymity describes situations where the acting person's identity is unknown.

Arab identity

Arab identity (الهوية العربية) is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as an Arab and as relating to being Arab.

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Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 191719 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

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Balanced budget

A balanced budget (particularly that of a government) is a budget in which revenues are equal to expenditures.

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Bandwidth (computing)

In computing, bandwidth is the maximum rate of data transfer across a given path.

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Bengt Holmström

Bengt Robert Holmström (born 18 April 1949) is a Finnish economist who is currently Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Bit

The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication.

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C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian.

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In database theory, the CAP theorem, also named Brewer's theorem after computer scientist Eric Brewer, states that any distributed data store can provide only two of the following three guarantees:; Consistency: Every read receives the most recent write or an error.

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Carneades

Carneades (Καρνεάδης, Karneadēs, "of Carnea"; 214/3–129/8 BC) was a Greek philosopher, perhaps the most prominent head of the Skeptical Academy in ancient Greece.

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Charles E. Lindblom

Charles Edward Lindblom (March 21, 1917 – January 30, 2018) was an American academic who studied economics at the University of Chicago and was Sterling Professor emeritus of political science and economics at Yale University.

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Christian apologetics

Christian apologetics (ἀπολογία, "verbal defense, speech in defense") is a branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity.

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Circular reasoning

Circular reasoning (circulus in probando, "circle in proving"; also known as circular logic) is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with.

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Coercivity

Coercivity, also called the magnetic coercivity, coercive field or coercive force, is a measure of the ability of a ferromagnetic material to withstand an external magnetic field without becoming demagnetized.

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Common law

Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.

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Communication protocol

A communication protocol is a system of rules that allows two or more entities of a communications system to transmit information via any variation of a physical quantity.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Communist state

A communist state, also known as a Marxist–Leninist state, is a one-party state in which the totality of the power belongs to a party adhering to some form of Marxism–Leninism, a branch of the communist ideology.

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Condorcet paradox

In social choice theory, a Condorcet paradox (or voting paradox) is a situation where majority rule behaves in a way that is self-contradictory.

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Contempt of court

Contempt of court, often referred to simply as "contempt", is the crime of being disobedient to or disrespectful toward a court of law and its officers in the form of behavior that opposes or defies the authority, justice, and dignity of the court.

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Dani Rodrik

Dani Rodrik (born August 14, 1957) is a Turkish economist and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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David Hume

David Hume (born David Home; – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist who was best known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical skepticism and metaphysical naturalism.

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Democracy

Democracy (from dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.

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Dilemma

A dilemma is a problem offering two possibilities, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable. Trilemma and dilemma are Rhetoric.

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Distributed database

A distributed database is a database in which data is stored across different physical locations.

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English people

The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.

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Epicurus

Epicurus (Ἐπίκουρος; 341–270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and sage who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy.

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Epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge.

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European Union Customs Union

The European Union Customs Union (EUCU), formally known as the Community Customs Union, is a customs union which consists of all the member states of the European Union (EU), Monaco, and the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia.

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Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fifth Amendment (Amendment V) to the United States Constitution creates several constitutional rights, limiting governmental powers focusing on criminal procedures.

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First May ministry

Theresa May formed the first May ministry in the United Kingdom on 13 July 2016, after having been invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a government.

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Fixed exchange rate system

A fixed exchange rate, often called a pegged exchange rate, is a type of exchange rate regime in which a currency's value is fixed or pegged by a monetary authority against the value of another currency, a basket of other currencies, or another measure of value, such as gold.

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From Beirut to Jerusalem

From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989) is a book by American journalist Thomas L. Friedman chronicling his days as a reporter in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and in Jerusalem through the first year of the Intifada.

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Hans Albert

Hans Albert (8 February 1921 24 October 2023) was a German philosopher.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

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Heat-assisted magnetic recording

Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) (pronounced "hammer") is a magnetic storage technology for greatly increasing the amount of data that can be stored on a magnetic device such as a hard disk drive by temporarily heating the disk material during writing, which makes it much more receptive to magnetic effects and allows writing to much smaller regions (and much higher levels of data on a disk).

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How the Mind Works

How the Mind Works is a 1997 book by the Canadian-American cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, in which the author attempts to explain some of the human mind's poorly understood functions and quirks in evolutionary terms.

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Ideology

An ideology is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely epistemic, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones".

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Incentive system

The term incentive system refers to a variety of fields, including biology, education, and philosophy.

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Inconsistent triad

An inconsistent triad consists of three propositions of which at most two can be true. Trilemma and inconsistent triad are Theodicy.

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Infinite regress

An infinite regress is an infinite series of entities governed by a recursive principle that determines how each entity in the series depends on or is produced by its predecessor.

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Irish Sea border

The Irish Sea border is an informal term for the trade border between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.

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Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts (17 July 1674 – 25 November 1748) was an English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician.

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Jesus

Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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Jewish identity

Jewish identity is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as a Jew and as relating to being Jewish.

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John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist and philosopher whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments.

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John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant.

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Logical equivalence

In logic and mathematics, statements p and q are said to be logically equivalent if they have the same truth value in every model.

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Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.

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Marcus Fleming

John Marcus Fleming (13 March 1911 – 3 February 1976) was a British economist.

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Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

The Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (translation), abbreviated as MMK, is the foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy.

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Monetary policy

Monetary policy is the policy adopted by the monetary authority of a nation to affect monetary and other financial conditions to accomplish broader objectives like high employment and price stability (normally interpreted as a low and stable rate of inflation).

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Mortal sin

A mortal sin (peccātum mortāle), in Christian theology, is a gravely sinful act which can lead to damnation if a person does not repent of the sin before death.

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Mundell–Fleming model

The Mundell–Fleming model, also known as the IS-LM-BoP model (or IS-LM-BP model), is an economic model first set forth (independently) by Robert Mundell and Marcus Fleming.

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Nagarjuna

Nagarjuna (Sanskrit: नागार्जुन/ Nāgārjuna) was an Indian monk and Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher of the Madhyamaka (Centrism, Middle Way) school.

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Nash equilibrium

In game theory, the Nash equilibrium is the most commonly-used solution concept for non-cooperative games.

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Network delay

Network delay is a design and performance characteristic of a telecommunications network.

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Northern Ireland Protocol

The Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, commonly abbreviated to the Northern Ireland Protocol, is a protocol to the Brexit withdrawal agreement that sets out Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit relationship with both the EU and Great Britain.

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Omnibenevolence

Omnibenevolence is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "unlimited or infinite benevolence".

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Omnipotence

Omnipotence is the quality of having unlimited power.

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On Liberty

On Liberty is an essay published in 1859 by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill.

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One-state solution

The one-state solution is a proposed approach to resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, according to which one state would be established between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean.

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Papal infallibility

Papal infallibility is a dogma of the Catholic Church which states that, in virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope when he speaks ex cathedra is preserved from the possibility of error on doctrine "initially given to the apostolic Church and handed down in Scripture and tradition".

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Pareto efficiency

In welfare economics, a Pareto improvement formalizes the idea of an outcome being "better in every possible way".

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Pastiche

A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, music, or architecture that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists.

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Perjury

Perjury (also known as foreswearing) is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding.

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Philip Henry

Philip Henry (24 August 1631 – 24 June 1696) was an English Nonconformist clergyman and diarist.

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Philosophical skepticism

Philosophical skepticism (UK spelling: scepticism; from Greek σκέψις skepsis, "inquiry") is a family of philosophical views that question the possibility of knowledge.

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Problem of evil

The problem of evil is the philosophical question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God. Trilemma and problem of evil are Christian apologetics and Christian philosophy.

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Project management

Project management is the process of supervising the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints.

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Project management triangle

The project management triangle (called also the triple constraint, iron triangle and project triangle) is a model of the constraints of project management.

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Quality, cost, delivery

Quality, cost, delivery (QCD), sometimes expanded to quality, cost, delivery, morale, safety (QCDMS), is a management approach originally developed by the British automotive industry.

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Quiet PC

A quiet, silent or fanless PC is a personal computer that makes very little or no noise.

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RAID

RAID ("redundant array of inexpensive disks" or "redundant array of independent disks") is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk drive components into one or more logical units for the purposes of data redundancy, performance improvement, or both.

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Right to silence

The right to silence is a legal principle which guarantees any individual the right to refuse to answer questions from law enforcement officers or court officials.

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Risk neutral preferences

In economics and finance, risk neutral preferences are preferences that are neither risk averse nor risk seeking.

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Robert Mundell

Robert Alexander Mundell (October 24, 1932 – April 4, 2021) was a Canadian economist.

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Self-incrimination

In criminal law, self-incrimination is the act of making a statement that exposes oneself to an accusation of criminal liability or prosecution.

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Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual.

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Software

Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.

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Standard RAID levels

In computer storage, the standard RAID levels comprise a basic set of RAID ("redundant array of independent disks" or "redundant array of inexpensive disks") configurations that employ the techniques of striping, mirroring, or parity to create large reliable data stores from multiple general-purpose computer hard disk drives (HDDs).

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is a freely available online philosophy resource published and maintained by Stanford University, encompassing both an online encyclopedia of philosophy and peer-reviewed original publication.

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Steven Pinker

Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual.

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Ternary plot

A ternary plot, ternary graph, triangle plot, simplex plot, or Gibbs triangle is a barycentric plot on three variables which sum to a constant.

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Tetralemma

The tetralemma is a figure that features prominently in the logic of India. Trilemma and tetralemma are Lemmas.

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The Blank Slate

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature is a best-selling 2002 book by the cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, in which the author makes a case against tabula rasa models in the social sciences, arguing that human behavior is substantially shaped by evolutionary psychological adaptations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilemma

Also known as Triangular compromise, Triangular tradeoff.

, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Monetary policy, Mortal sin, Mundell–Fleming model, Nagarjuna, Nash equilibrium, Network delay, Northern Ireland Protocol, Omnibenevolence, Omnipotence, On Liberty, One-state solution, Papal infallibility, Pareto efficiency, Pastiche, Perjury, Philip Henry, Philosophical skepticism, Problem of evil, Project management, Project management triangle, Quality, cost, delivery, Quiet PC, RAID, Right to silence, Risk neutral preferences, Robert Mundell, Self-incrimination, Slavoj Žižek, Software, Standard RAID levels, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Steven Pinker, Ternary plot, Tetralemma, The Blank Slate, Thomas Friedman, Trichotomy (philosophy), Virtue, Zionism, Zooko's triangle, 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.

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