chekov’s cat: if you see a cat, it will probably be relevant later.
schroedinger’s gun: there’s no way to know if a gun is loaded or not until you physically inspect and check it yourself, so it’s safest to assume all guns are loaded.
Schrœdinkov’s Catgun: If you see a cat with a gun, there’s no way to know if it will be relevant later except to wait and observe.
Placcam’s Razorcave: The simplest explanation for anything is that you have no understanding of the real world.
Murphagoryan Lawrem: The square of the consequences of any two things that can go wrong will equal the sum of the squared consequences of the individual things.
Okkov’s Gunblade: If you see someone with a bayonet, the simplest explanation is that they will stab you in the future.
Schrœdingorean Catrollary: If you put a cat in a triangular box, the hypotenuse face of the box could be both intact and destroyed until you actually look at what the cat’s been up to.
Plurphy’s Cave Law: If you don’t understand the real world, things will go wrong.
Pychœccovamatophy’s theory of cat-shaving cave gun regulations: If you see a cat with a gun in one hand and a blade in the other emerging from a cave on a right-angled path, the simplest solution is to flee along the hypotenuse, but you won’t know until later whether anything will go wrong because you really don’t understand the real world.
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