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Philosophical Latin Phrases Starting with phrase number 121
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- Quid faciant leges, ubi sola pecunia regnat? - What can laws do, where only money reigns? (Philosophical term)
- Quod natura seponat socialitas copulat - What nature separates, society unites (Philosophical Term)
- Rari nantes in gurgite vasto - Rare survivors in the immense sea (Philosophical term - Virgil - Aeneid, I, 118)
- Ratio cognoscendi - Reason of Knowing (Legal Term and also philosophical term, ethics)
- Ratio essendi - Reason of being (Legal and philosophical term, ethics)
- Reductio ad absurdum - Reduced to absurdity (Philosophical term - Zeno of Elea and Archimedes - Logical method that proves a hypothesis is wrong by showing that its consequences are absurd, impossible or illogical - It is also used to show that a thesis is correct, because all other alternatives lead to absurd or illogical conclusions)
- Reductio ad Hitlerum - Reduced to Hitler (Philosophical term used in logic to describe an Argumentum ad hominem fallacy where an argument is made by comparing the opponent to Hitler)
- Regnus Agnus Mundi - The kingdom of lambs in the world (Philosophical term)
- Sapiens procul negotiis vivit - The wise man keeps away from business deals (Philosophical term)
- Scentio ergo sum - I feel, therefore I am (Philosophical term - Variant of cogito, ergo sum)
- Scio me nihil scire or Scio me nescire - I know that I know nothing, or I know nothing (Philosophical Term - Latin translation of the famous Socrates quote)
- Secundum quid et simpliciter - It is secondary and it simplifies (Legal and philosophical term - Fallacy that takes a small part to represent the whole).
- Semper Aequitas - Equality always (Philosophical term)
- Serva me, servabo te - Save me, save you (Philosophical term, also love phrase - Petronius)
- Si sapientia Deus est, verus philosophus est amator Dei - If wisdom is God, then the true philosopher is a lover of God (Philosophical Term - St. Augustine)
- Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago - Without a doctrine, life is like the image of death (Philosophical term)
- Statu hominis - The state of humans (Philosophical term)
- Tamdiu discendum est, quamdiu vivas - We have to learn for as long as we live (Philosophical term)
- Tamquam tabula rasa in qua nihil est de pictu - As clean writing board, where nobody has drawn anything (Philosophical term - John Locke, XVII century - expresses that consciousness lacks any kind of content without the aid of experience, which is the source of all knowledge)
- Tertium non datur - No third possibility (Philosophical term used in logic. It states that the proposition is either true or false. There is no third option)
- Universus hic mundus una civitas exsistimanda - The world at large has to be considered as one urban community (Philosophical Term - Cicero)
- Usteron proteron - The late earlier (Legal and philosophical term - Fallacy that assumes that something that has not been proven is true, figure of speech that reverses the natural order of words)
- Vae sophistis qui cavillis et tropis tergiversantur - Woe to the Sophists who when they speak, they misrepresent things with their jokes and tropes! (Philosophical Term - Michael Servetus (1511-1553) in his book "Christianismi Restitutio" page 91)
- Veritas est adequatio rei et intellectus - Truth is the adequacy of the mind with reality (Philosophical Term - how the realist philosophy defines the notion of the term truth)
- Vidi ego qui durum possit frenare leonem; Vidi qui solus corda domaret: Amor - I saw that is hard to stop a lion; I saw that only one thing can subdue the heart: Love (Philosophical term)
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