However, no direct connection can be demonstrated, and the similarity of the abaci may be coincidental, both ultimately arising from counting with five fingers per hand.

In both cases the preliminary conditions would be related to changes in technology as well as economic conditions impacting the publication and dissemination of sf, seen as generating a " widespread " sense of malaise among writers and fans, coincidental or coherent with a generational phenomenon, the retirement or obvious decline in productivity of a number of major authors whose output had dominated the previous decade ; finally the perceptible emergence of fresh thematic material which might previously have been inhibited by prevailing orthodoxies.

The most coincidental thing is both Farrell and Morgan were big fans of the M * A * S * H series during its early seasons before they both joined the cast, with Morgan having also appeared as " General Bartford Hamilton Steele " in the season-three episode " The General Flipped at Dawn " ( for which he won an Emmy Award for Best Guest Role in a Primetime Comedy Series ).

Communications are begun with the Soviet Chairman, whereupon mistakes on both sides ( the American accidental launch of the mission and the coincidental Russian jamming ) are acknowledged.

However, any instances of synchronization are quite clearly coincidental, as both the album and the film were in production at approximately the same time.

This results in situations such as the power play, in which the opposing team outnumbers the penalized ( shorthanded ) team, and ( in the event of coincidental minor penalties ) situations in which both teams must skate with only five players ( including the goaltender ) on the ice.

To keep play fair, coincidental minor penalties (" matching minor " penalties assessed to both teams simultaneously ) are also served in full regardless of scoring.

In the 6th century, the Consolation of Philosophy, by statesman and philosopher Boethius, written while he faced execution, reflected the Christian theology of casus, that the apparently random and often ruinous turns of Fortune's Wheel are in fact both inevitable and providential, that even the most coincidental events are part of God's hidden plan which one should not resist or try to change.

It is coincidental that his namesake ( who coaches Bristol Rugby ) had also attended the same school and both played for Salisbury Rugby Club.

McCreery suggests this phenomenological similarity is not coincidental, and results from the idea that both phenomena, the Type 2 false awakening and the primary delusionary experience, are phenomena of sleep.

However, no direct connection can be demonstrated, and the similarity of the abaci may be coincidental, both ultimately arising from counting with five fingers per hand.

Zicree also points out that the chances of the word " serve " having the same dual meaning in both English and another language, especially an alien one, are almost nil ( though it is entirely possible that, as in the original story, the word's dual meaning in the English language was merely coincidental, and the word did not have the same dual meaning in the Kanamit language, or that the Kanamits deliberately came up with a dual-meaning construction ( possibly with " words " they made up, not previously existing in native " Kanamitish "), plausible in English, before making it the title of the book ).

Gowen's multi-faceted role in particular — from his 1871 and 1875 testimonies positing a Mollie-like criminal enterprise at the heart of the WBA, which he also rhetorically linked to Communism ; to the coincidental timing of the hopeless Long Strike precipitated by the Schuylkill Coal Exchange that Gowen had organized, on one hand, and his bankrolling the undercover anti-Mollie machinations, on the other ; plus partially substantiated claims that McParland or other Pinkertons essentially on the Reading Railroad payroll instigated both Mollie-like activities and anti-Mollie vigilantism — has eluded historical consensus.

Some people, including Aubrey, consider these two contiguous, possibly coincidental events as related and causative of his death: " The Snow so chilled him that he immediately fell so extremely ill, that he could not return to his Lodging ... but went to the Earle of Arundel's house at Highgate, where they put him into ... a damp bed that had not been layn-in ... which gave him such a cold that in 2 or 3 days as I remember Mr Hobbes told me, he died of Suffocation.

While these events could be filtered as irrelevant by the mind, their coincidental synchronicity could lead to sudden assumptions about one's surroundings, such as the feeling of being watched or followed.

Our curiosity was just curiosity about the structure of the nucleus of the atom, and the discovery of these reactions was purely, as the Americans would put it, coincidental.

Although the creators were sure that no one could believe a tale so ridiculous — and had added a link at the bottom of the page to another page explaining the hoax, and a message with the ratings reading " Note: Any relationship between these ratings and reality is purely coincidental " — eventually the legend was featured as true in an urban legends board game and television show.

The development of these themes and techniques are not coincidental.

Lumley doesn't acknowledge any of these as conscious inspirations, saying that Crow's time-clock ( which derives from Lovecraft's " Through the Gates of the Silver Key ") long predates Who ; that he's never read Peake's Gormenghast and that the similarity of names is coincidental ; and that he " was never too keen on " Derleth's Shrewsbury.

Whether or not these names were chosen intentionally or purely coincidental remains unconfirmed.

As a result any changes observed after a stimulus is applied can be statistically collated and it could be decided if these changes are reactions to the stimulus or just merely coincidental.

Most carcinoids are asymptomatic through the natural lifetime and are discovered only upon surgery for unrelated reasons ; these are called coincidental carcinoids.

The characters of the story joked about the coincidental name of the city.

It was once thought that the website AdamsLetter. com featured the inspiration behind the song, though this was later revealed as a fictitious story, and any " resemblance between the characters, places, and events to any real people is purely coincidental.

Any similarity with fictitious events or characters was purely coincidental.

This should be clearly distinguished from Unicode characters that are rendered as identical glyphs or near-identical glyphs ( homoglyphs ), either because they are historically cognate ( such as Greek Η vs. Latin H ) or because of coincidental similarity ( such as Greek Ρ vs. Latin P, or Greek Η vs. Cyrillic Н, or the astronomical symbol for " Sun " ☉ vs. " circled dot operator " ⊙ vs. the Gothic letter vs. the IPA symbol for a bilabial click ʘ ).

The novel is filled with coincidental moments where trouble is avoided because wind catches up at just the right time, or the characters look in just the right direction.

The plot is a coincidental and playful combination of two previously recognizable stories: Aesop's The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, and Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper ; except in the 1988 film, the fictional protagonists are female, and actual twins instead of two look-alike characters.

He subsequently appears to have left the country in other years coincidental with periods when David II was active king.

It is possible that Strabo made a false identification based solely on the similarity between the two tribal names, which may have been coincidental.

Many of the coincidental misunderstandings have to do with Masuo interacting with coworker, the daughter of the company president, who has fallen in love with Masuo, but Masuo lacks the confidence to believe it to be true.

Say you see a friend from school you have not seen for years when you are on holiday ( an unlikely event ); before saying it is fate or coincidence, think what is in the petwhac ( meeting any friend from the same time period at least, friends of your brothers, sisters or parents, old flames, neighbours, teachers, someone who worked in the local chip-shop ... the list is probably endless, and all would seem coincidental ).

An introductory title screen – repeated as the Foreword to the 1946 novelization by Eric Warman – contains an explicit statement: " This is the story of two worlds, the one we know and another which exists only in the mind of a young airman whose life and imagination have been violently shaped by war ", adding " Any resemblance to any other world known or unknown is purely coincidental ".

Likewise conspiracy theorists are famously prone to identify a ( perhaps coincidental ) pattern, and conclude that it must have great significance, although things that are important, life-changing, and even catastrophic, can occur simply out of random chance.

" Due to the title and the explicit satirization of American culture in the cover and three of the songs (" Gone Hollywood ", " Breakfast in America ", and " Child of Vision "), many listeners interpreted the album as a satire of the U. S. Supertramp's members have all insisted that the repeated references to U. S. culture are purely coincidental and that no such thematic satire was intended.

Pilots often have their own nicknames for their aircraft which may bear only coincidental resemblance ( if that ) to the official common name, although some pilot nicknames are similar or even derived from the official common name ( such as " Bug " and " Super Bug " for the F / A-18 Hornet and F / A-18E / F Super Hornet ).

In its defence, a Channel 4 spokesperson stated: " Any similarities are entirely coincidental and we have carefully considered how best to proceed.

The town's name is believed to have come from three coincidental circumstances: One historical version was that it was named after the fang of a wild boar called " Panguil " in the vernacular.

Although Gregson's meeting with Holmes is coincidental, he is swift to grasp the implications of getting his help and claims to have been grateful for his work with the Yard in the past.

The connection with Gombert may not have been coincidental.

It is rather coincidental that the languages neighbouring this region, namely Hittite and Akkadian, also happen to have the same four-vowel systems lacking " o ".

It is not difficult to show that the gains and losses may not balance out, leading to economic crises, but many arguments have been given to show that there are only " coincidental " or " temporary " surpluses of some kind.

Different scholars suggest that the 11th century Persian story Vis u Ramin must have been the model for the Tristan legend because the similarities are too great to be coincidental.