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acts/omissions doctrine
The doctrine that it makes an ethical difference whether an agent actively intervenes to bring about a result, or omits to act in circumstances in which it is foreseen that as a result of the ...
nothing
The non-existence of all things; a concept that can be frightening, fascinating, or dismissed as the product of the logical confusion of treating the term ‘nothing’ as itself a referring expression ...
trolley problem Reference library
Sarah Richmond
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
Suppose you are driving a trolley whose brakes have failed. Ahead of you five people are standing on the track. But here the track forks, and on the alternative path one person stands. Is ...
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