Non cogito, ergo non sum.
De omnibus dubitandum
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name_NULL111653@pawb.social 2 years ago
FedFer@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 years ago
Multi stulti non cognitant tamen sunt.
yesman@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Philosophers overuse Latin? Wait till you hear about medicine and law.
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Carpe Diem
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
The original YOLO
GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Or as I like to say, “Carpe Denim,” seize the pants.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 years ago
My motto is Carpe diem, sit maturam.
Pluck the day, once it’s ripe
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
Are we disrespecting Latin now?? Sic transit gloria mundi!
Default_Defect@midwest.social 2 years 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 2 years ago
Quid pro quo
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
post hoc, ergo propter hoc
Emerald@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
Wow, no need for the at person remarks.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 2 years ago
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
(Who’s guarding the guardians)
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
agentibus emissumque canis de
(Who let the dogs out)
Ddhuud@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Ipso facto: immediately
BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Doesn’t ipso facto mean “because of” or “as a direct result of”?
Ipso facto is definitely less cumbersome.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I think you mean French.
Ravi@feddit.de 2 years ago
Tu stulidus et asinus est.
Gotta learn the most important words first.
match@pawb.social 2 years ago
Quod erat demonstrandum.
blackluster117@possumpat.io 2 years ago
Carthago delenda est
smeg@feddit.uk 2 years ago
Romanes eunt domus
Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years 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 2 years ago
Credo quia absurdum
harry_balzac@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Semper ubi sub ubi
Hammersbald@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Omnia mea mecum porto
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years 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 2 years ago
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 2 years ago
Cum tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 years ago
No
letsgo@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Caaesar ad sum iam forte. Brutus adarat. Caesar sic in omnibus. Brutus sic in at.
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Molon labe /s
NAXLAB@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Qua is good tho
letsgo@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Redde Caesari quae sunt Caesaris.
Prunebutt@feddit.de 2 years ago
Romanus eunt domus.
Fades@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Eunt, what is eunt?
Er… to go!
Conjugate the verb to go…
dellish@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Domus? Nominative? This is motion towards isn’t it, boy?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Sounds like Judean People’s Front propaganda!
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Splitters!