Non cogito, ergo non sum.
De omnibus dubitandum
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name_NULL111653@pawb.social 7 months ago
FedFer@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 months ago
Multi stulti non cognitant tamen sunt.
yesman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Philosophers overuse Latin? Wait till you hear about medicine and law.
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Carpe Diem
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
The original YOLO
GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Or as I like to say, “Carpe Denim,” seize the pants.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 7 months ago
My motto is Carpe diem, sit maturam.
Pluck the day, once it’s ripe
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Academic philosophy is mostly concerned with the Greeks and Germans. The Romans had their philosophers, but they did not have the same influence on modern thought.
Also, often times philosophers do use an original word or phrase because it cannot be translated well into English. Language evolves over time and concepts as they were originally understood can be lost or muddled by modern uses of a word used to substitute. Also, etymology is more and more important in philosophy.
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
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):
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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.)
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Forms/rules in logic (e.g., “modus ponens”, “modus tollens”, “reductio ad absurdum”, etc.)
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Informal fallacy names (e.g., “ad hominem”, “tu quoque”, “ad populum”, etc)
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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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SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Are we disrespecting Latin now?? Sic transit gloria mundi!
Default_Defect@midwest.social 7 months ago
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.
SoupBrick@yiffit.net 7 months ago
Quid pro quo
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If only there were some way to express the concept of "this for that"in simple English. Oops I just did it
Deuces@lemmy.world 7 months ago
post hoc, ergo propter hoc
Emerald@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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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
Stovetop@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wow, no need for the at person remarks.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 7 months ago
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
(Who’s guarding the guardians)
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
agentibus emissumque canis de
(Who let the dogs out)
Ddhuud@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ipso facto: immediately
BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Doesn’t ipso facto mean “because of” or “as a direct result of”?
Ipso facto is definitely less cumbersome.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think you mean French.
Ravi@feddit.de 7 months ago
Tu stulidus et asinus est.
Gotta learn the most important words first.
match@pawb.social 7 months ago
Quod erat demonstrandum.
blackluster117@possumpat.io 7 months ago
Carthago delenda est
smeg@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Romanes eunt domus
Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I’m partial to Nihil Novum Sub Sole.
Actually a little surprised that nobody beat me to that one. Maybe there IS something new.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Credo quia absurdum
harry_balzac@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Semper ubi sub ubi
Hammersbald@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Omnia mea mecum porto
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
De Omnibus Dubitandum Est is a name of an album by Dark Sky Burial, a side project of Shane Embury of Napalm Death
calypsopub@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 7 months ago
Cum tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No
letsgo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Caaesar ad sum iam forte. Brutus adarat. Caesar sic in omnibus. Brutus sic in at.
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Molon labe /s
NAXLAB@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Qua is good tho
letsgo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Redde Caesari quae sunt Caesaris.
Prunebutt@feddit.de 7 months ago
Romanus eunt domus.
Fades@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Eunt, what is eunt?
Er… to go!
Conjugate the verb to go…
dellish@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Domus? Nominative? This is motion towards isn’t it, boy?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sounds like Judean People’s Front propaganda!
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Splitters!