In philosophy, used to denote something known from experience. Used in mathematics and logic to denote something that is known after a proof has been carried out.
"From possibility to actuality" or "from being possible to being actual"īased on observation (i.e., empirical knowledge), the reverse of a priori.
Similar to the English expressions "from tip to toe" or "from head to toe". National motto of Canada.Ī pedibus usque ad from feet to head caputĬompletely. Often used to lead from a less certain proposition to a more evident corollary.įrom Psalm 72:8, "Et dominabitur a mari usque ad mare, et a flumine usque ad terminos terrae" (KJV: "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth"). Loosely, "even more so" or "with even stronger reason". Legal term from Cicero's De Finibus 4.53. An argumentum a contrario is an "argument from the contrary", an argument or proof by contrast or direct opposite.Ī long time ago. Equally a pedibus usque ad caput.Įquivalent to "on the contrary" or "au contraire". Whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to the sky and down to the depths").įrom top to bottom all the way through (colloquially "from head to toe"). In law, can refer to the obsolete cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferosmaxim of property ownership ("for Or "from heaven all the way to the center of the earth". This phrase, and its Italian (beneplacito) and Spanish (beneplácito) derivatives, are synonymous with the more common ad libitum (at pleasure). Contents Ī B C D E F G H I L M N O P Q R S T U V Notes References The content of the list cannot be edited here, and is kept automatically in sync with the separate lists through the use of transclusion. This list is a combination of the twenty divided "List of Latin phrases" pages, for users who have no trouble loading large pages and prefer a single page to scroll or search through. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as Greek rhetoric and literature reached its peak centuries before that of ancient Rome. This page lists direct English translations of common Latin phrases.
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