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Examples include: "The sequence 1, 2, 3, ... continues ad infinitum." "The perimeter of a fractal may be iteratively drawn ad infinitum." The 17th-century writer Jonathan Swift incorporated the idea of self-similarity in the following lines from his satirical poem On Poetry: a Rhapsody (1733):
Examples for such models are an exponential-power model or an exponential-exponential-power model (see explicit models expounded further on). Since the final form of the model is determined by the values of RMM parameters, this implies that the data, used to estimate the parameters, determine the final form of the estimated RMM model (as with ...
i.e., "to the point of disgust". Sometimes used as a humorous alternative to ad infinitum. An argumentum ad nauseam is a logical fallacy in which erroneous proof is proffered by prolonged repetition of the argument, i. e., the argument is repeated so many times that persons are "sick of it". ad oculos: to the eyes
reductio ad Hitlerum: leading back to Hitler: A term coined by German-American political philosopher Leo Strauss to humorously describe a fallacious argument that compares an opponent's views to those held by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party. Derived from reductio ad absurdum. reductio ad infinitum: leading back to the infinite
ad idem: to the same thing In agreement. / ˌ æ d ˈ aɪ d ə m / ad infinitum: to infinity To continue forever. / ˌ æ d ɪ n f ɪ ˈ n aɪ t ə m / ad litem: for the case Describes those designated to represent parties deemed incapable of representing themselves, such as a child or incapacitated adult. / ˌ æ d ˈ l aɪ t ɛ m / ad quod ...
The book appeared the year after the publication of his essay The Literature of Exhaustion, in which Barth said that the traditional modes of realistic fiction had been used up, but that this exhaustion itself could be used to inspire a new generation of writers, citing Nabokov, Beckett, and especially Borges as exemplars of this new approach.
What remains most unchanged, even with some reconfiguring, is the setting. Moss’ moody, futurist structure exists to conjure your favorite science-fiction comparisons.
Challenging the concept of eternal recurrence (the idea that the universe and its events have already occurred and will recur ad infinitum), the story's thematic meditations posit the alternative: that each person has only one life to live and that which occurs in life occurs only once and never again – thus the "lightness" of being. Moreover ...