A remarkable number of English words have Latin origins, and many Latin phrases are still used untranslated by English stylists. Here are a selection of 45 Latin phrases you could use in your blogs to add a little classicist feel and erudition to your endeavours. From John o’London.
For democracy to grow it must have citizens, a people who will take interest in public affairs. They must have the capacity to participate and determine.
Science thrives on errors, cutting them away one by one. False conclusions are drawn all the time, but are drawn tentatively. Hypotheses are framed so that they are capable of being disproved. A succession of alternative hypotheses is confronted by experiment and observation. Science gropes and staggers towards improved understanding. Proprietary feelings are offended when a scientific hypothesis is disproved, but such disproofs are recognized as central to the scientific enterprise. Pseudoscience is just the opposite. Hypotheses are framed so they are invulnerable to any experiment that offers a possibility of disproof, so even in principle, they cannot be invalidated. Practitioners are defensive and wary. Sceptical scrutiny is opposed. When the pseudoscientific hypothesis fails to catch fire with scientists, conspiracies to suppress it are blamed.
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