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.)
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.
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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Prunebutt@feddit.de · 37 pts · 2y
Romanus eunt domus.
Fades@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Eunt, what is eunt?
Er… to go!
Conjugate the verb to go…
dellish@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Domus? Nominative? This is motion towards isn't it, boy?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Sounds like Judean People's Front propaganda!
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Splitters!
name_NULL111653@pawb.social · 28 pts · 2y
Non cogito, ergo non sum.
FedFer@iusearchlinux.fyi · 5 pts · 2y
Multi stulti non cognitant tamen sunt.
yesman@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y
Philosophers overuse Latin? Wait till you hear about medicine and law.
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 2y
Carpe Diem
balderdash9@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 2y
The original YOLO
GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
Or as I like to say, "Carpe Denim," seize the pants.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 2y
My motto is Carpe diem, sit maturam.
Pluck the day, once it's ripe
phoneymouse@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y
balderdash9@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 2y
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.
Prunebutt@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y
OP confused philosophers with lawyers, probably.
balderdash9@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 2y
bl4ckeagle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol9/iss1/art4/
SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
Are we disrespecting Latin now?? Sic transit gloria mundi!
SoupBrick@yiffit.net · 11 pts · 2y
Quid pro quo
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
If only there were some way to express the concept of "this for that" in simple English.
Oops I just did it
Default_Defect@midwest.social · 10 pts · 2y
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.
Sebbe@lemmy.sebbem.se · 9 pts · 2y
Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
My favourite, and the most accurate answer.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com · 8 pts · 2y
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
(Who's guarding the guardians)
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
agentibus emissumque canis de?
(Who let the dogs out)
Deuces@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
post hoc, ergo propter hoc
Emerald@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
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Name every unnecessary latin phrase that could easily be expressed in english but sounds way smarter in latin
Stovetop@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
smeg@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 2y
Ravi@feddit.de · 5 pts · 2y
Tu stulidus et asinus est.
Gotta learn the most important words first.
calypsopub@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
I think you mean French.
harry_balzac@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Semper ubi sub ubi
match@pawb.social · 4 pts · 2y
Quod erat demonstrandum.
Ddhuud@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Ipso facto: immediately
BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 2y
Doesn't ipso facto mean "because of" or "as a direct result of"?
Ipso facto is definitely less cumbersome.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 2y
Credo quia absurdum
Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2y
I'm partial to Nihil Novum Sub Sole.
Actually a little surprised that nobody beat me to that one. Maybe there IS something new.
blackluster117@possumpat.io · 4 pts · 2y
Carthago delenda est
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2y
De Omnibus Dubitandum Est is a name of an album by Dark Sky Burial, a side project of Shane Embury of Napalm Death
Diplomjodler@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y
Cum tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.
NAXLAB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Qua is good tho
thejodie@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y
Most of these https://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A218882
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
No
Hammersbald@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Omnia mea mecum porto
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Molon labe /s
letsgo@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Caaesar ad sum iam forte. Brutus adarat. Caesar sic in omnibus. Brutus sic in at.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
Canis in willa dormit.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
Caecillius est in horto
letsgo@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 2y
Redde Caesari quae sunt Caesaris.