Spyke
Fadesreply
lemmy.world

Eunt, what is eunt?

Er… to go!

Conjugate the verb to go…

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Philosophers overuse Latin? Wait till you hear about medicine and law.

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My motto is Carpe diem, sit maturam.

Pluck the day, once it's ripe

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I read and write in academic philosophy for a living. Philosophers causally throw around Latin phrases in their writing (and, sometimes embarrassingly, even when speaking):

  • Many from historical figures (e.g., Kant's a priori/a posteriori, Berkeley's "esse ist percepi", Descartes "cogito ero sum", Leibniz's "salva veritate", etc.)

  • Forms/rules in logic (e.g., "modus ponens", "modus tollens", "reductio ad absurdum", etc.)

  • Informal fallacy names (e.g., "ad hominem", "tu quoque", "ad populum", etc)

  • As well as a myriad of other commonly used terms you're expected to know when reading philosophy (e.g., prima facie, mutatis mutandis, a fortiori, eo ipso, ex nihilo, sui generis, ceteris paribus, ad hoc, non sequitur, etc. etc.).

This is not a random list. Every one of these Latin phrases sees heavy use in today's philosophical literature.

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Prunebuttreply
feddit.de

OP confused philosophers with lawyers, probably.

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If only there were some way to express the concept of "this for that" in simple English.

Oops I just did it

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My favorite version of this is the person that you can tell is ITCHING to use that latin term they just found out about is arguing with a certified idiot. They keep dropping "argumentum ad hominem"s and "non sequitur"s at the idiot and the idiot doesn't know what it means or care and it goes on and on and on.

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Philosophical Questions, @philquestionsYT

Oh you like philosophy?

Name every unnecessary latin phrase that could easily be expressed in english but sounds way smarter in latin

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Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.

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Tu stulidus et asinus est.

Gotta learn the most important words first.

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I'm partial to Nihil Novum Sub Sole.

Actually a little surprised that nobody beat me to that one. Maybe there IS something new.

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De Omnibus Dubitandum Est is a name of an album by Dark Sky Burial, a side project of Shane Embury of Napalm Death

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Caaesar ad sum iam forte. Brutus adarat. Caesar sic in omnibus. Brutus sic in at.

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