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Resistentialism

Jocular theory to describe seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects

Jennings naming the fictional inventor of Resistentialism as Pierre-Marie Ventre. The slogan of Resistentialism is "Les choses sont contre nous" ("Things

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Murphy's law

Adage that anything that can go wrong will go wrong

dates from the 1930s. In 1948, humorist Paul Jennings coined the term resistentialism, a jocular play on resistance and existentialism, to describe "seemingly

Murphy's law

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Finagle's law

Adage

related belief "Inanimate objects are out to get us", also known as Resistentialism. Similar to Finagle's law is the verbless phrase of the German novelist

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Minimax

Decision rule used for minimizing the possible loss for a worst-case scenario

(see move by nature), and using a similar mindset as Murphy's law or resistentialism, take an approach which minimizes the maximum expected loss, using

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Buttered toast phenomenon

Tendency of bread to land buttered side down

Murphy's law Sod's law The Butter Battle Book Finagle's law § Variants Resistentialism § Similar concepts Martin, Gary. "'Why does bread always fall buttered

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Paul Jennings (British author)

English humourist & author (1918–1989)

Several of his pieces touched on the invented philosophical movement of Resistentialism. Jennings married Celia Blom, daughter of music critic and lexicographer

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Animistic fallacy

Fallacy that intent acts to cause events

Anthropomorphism Argument from ignorance Pathetic fallacy Reification (fallacy) Resistentialism Teleological argument Sowell, Thomas (1996). Knowledge and decisions

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Résistancialisme

French national myth of anti-Nazi resistance

Rather than attacking the Resistance as a whole, they created the term "resistentialism" to criticise those who they saw as pseudo-resisters while also attempting

Résistancialisme

The Malice of Inanimate Objects

Short story by M. R. James

writes that the title of the story "aptly summarizes [James'] oeuvre". Resistentialism Squire Korbes I.e. "I see you." I.e. "I, Geo[rge] W[ilkins], did this

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The Steiger Effect

1968 short story by Betsy Curtis

Galactic Journey; published September 30, 2023; retrieved May 1, 2024 Resistentialism, posted by Maggie Thompson to the A Way with Words forum, October 7

The Steiger Effect

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