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`Accident of Birth': A Non-Utilitarian Motif in Mill's Philosophy

open access: closedJournal of the History of Ideas, 1961
The primary objective of the following study is not to indulge in the familiar passtime of ferreting out inconsistencies and fallacies in the thought of one of the keenest, noblest, and least expendable thinkers and doers of the nineteenth century.
Herbert Spiegelberg
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The impact of the accident at Three Mile Island on plant control and instrumentation philosophy

open access: closed, 1990
Instrumentation systems as defined in this book do not provide direct inputs to control systems but provide data for recording or display. The display, or so-called man—machine interface, is a key part of instrumentation systems which is easily neglected to the detriment of overall performance.
Fred Catlow
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Live working as an example of electrical installation maintenance with the zero accidents philosophy

open access: closed2014 11th International Conference on Live Maintenance (ICOLIM), 2014
Live working can be considered a contribution to safety at work, as it is an example of electrical installation maintenance with the zero accidents philosophy. The purpose of this paper is to promote the concepts of maintenance work without accidents or with “zero accidents”.
Boštjan Gomišček, Viktor Lovrencic
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Substance, mode, and accident in modern philosophy

open access: closed, 2018
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries inherited, and were witness to, the decline of the metaphysics of substance, mode, and accident of the Aristotelian tradition. The causes of this decline can be gleaned from an investigation of various puzzles which arose during the period, and of the ways in which different philosophers reacted to these puzzles.
Alex Silverman
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The Philosophy of the Accident Problem

open access: closedJournal of Educational Sociology, 1946
Roscoe L. West
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