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"To be, or not to be" is a speech given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "nunnery scene" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1). The speech is named for the opening phrase, itself among the most widely known and quoted lines in modern English literature, and has been referenced in many works of theatre, literature and music.
Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi is a Latin phrase, literally "What is permissible for Jupiter is not permissible for a cow". The locus classicus (origin) for the phrase is the novella Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing (1826) by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, although it is not entirely clear that Eichendorff coined the phrase himself.
The Latin phrase comes from the Greek τὸ ἐν ἀρχῇ αἰτεῖσθαι (tò en archêi aiteîsthai ' asking the original point ') [11] in Aristotle's Prior Analytics II xvi 64b28–65a26: Begging or assuming the point at issue consists (to take the expression in its widest sense) [in] failing to demonstrate the required proposition.
At this point I think readers are familiar with my views on that score. But—and I know this is difficult for some people to grasp—just because Biden is a better man than Trump, that doesn’t ...
An irrelevant conclusion, [1] also known as ignoratio elenchi (Latin for 'ignoring refutation') or missing the point, is the informal fallacy of presenting an argument whose conclusion fails to address the issue in question. It falls into the broad class of relevance fallacies. [2]
"The unexamined life is not worth living" is a famous dictum supposedly uttered by Socrates at his trial for impiety and corrupting youth, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death.
(For my daughter, this might mean introducing a new soothing element to her sleep routine, like a meditation session or, well, anything else that doesn’t involve punching oneself in the crotch ...
Ad nauseam is a Latin term for an argument or other discussion that has continued to the figurative point of nausea. [1] [2] For example, "this has been discussed ad nauseam" indicates that the topic has been discussed extensively and those involved have grown sick of it.