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Police Are Not Allowed to Use Deadly Force on a Fleeing

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Police are not allowed to use deadly force on a fleeing suspect, even if officers believe the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious harm to others.


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Existential Generalization

A form of inference where from a specific case one concludes the existence of an instance satisfying a particular condition.

Existential Instantiation

A logical principle stating that if something is said to exist, then a specific instance of that thing must also exist.

Universal Generalization

A logical operation that infers a general statement from specific cases, asserting that a property or relation holds for all members of a certain category.

Universal Instantiation

A logical rule that infers from the truth of a universally quantified statement about all members of a domain, the truth of that statement about any specific member.

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