

Said of an argument either for a conclusion that rests on the alleged absurdity of an opponent's argument (cf. In everyday speech, it denotes something occurring or being known before the event. In philosophy, used to denote something is supposed without empirical evidence. Used in mathematics and logic to denote something that is known or postulated before a proof has been carried out. Presupposed independent of experience the reverse of a posteriori. In philosophy, used to denote something known from experience. Used in mathematics and logic to denote something that is known after a proof has been carried out. "From possibility to actuality" or "from being possible to being actual".īased on observation, i. I.e., "completely," "from tip to toe," "from head to toe." Equally a capite ad calcem. I.e., "even more so" or "with even stronger reason." Often used to lead from a less certain proposition to a more evident corollary. Thus, an argumentum a contrario ("argument from the contrary") is an argument or proof by contrast or direct opposite. I.e., "on the contrary" or " au contraire". I.e., "from top to bottom," "all the way through," or "from head to toe." See also a pedibus usque ad caput. I.e., "from Heaven all the way to the center of the Earth." In law, it may refer to the proprietary principle of cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos ("whosesoever is the soil, it is his up to the sky and down to the depths ").

Representative from Georgia) and crew were killed.I.e., "at will" or "at one's pleasure." This phrase, and its Italian ( beneplacito) and Spanish ( beneplácito) derivatives, are synonymous with the more common ad libitum (at pleasure).įrom general to particular "What holds for all X also holds for one particular X." – argumentum a fortioriĪn inference from smaller to bigger what is forbidden at least is forbidden at more ("If riding a bicycle with two on it is forbidden, riding it with three on it is at least similarly punished".) spy plane, the passenger jet was shot down by a Soviet SU-15 fighter - after it had tracked the airliner for two hours. Saying that they believed it to be a U.S. In 1983, in the year of Andrew Pecunia's passing, on August 30th, the Soviet Union claimed that a South Korean Boeing 747 jetliner (Flight 007), bound for Seoul from New York City, had strayed into Soviet airspace. It ended up costing $1 billion to clean up the site. Radiation leaked into the environment, resulting in a rating of 5 on a scale of 7 ("Accident With Wider Consequences"). In 1979, by the time he was 68 years old, on March 28th, a partial nuclear meltdown occurred at the power plant at Three Mile Island Pennsylvania. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on D-Day - Allied casualties on the first day were at least 10,000. Almost 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers were involved.
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Soldiers from the United States, Britain, Canada, and the Free French landed on Normandy Beach and were later joined by Poland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, and the Netherlands. In 1944, by the time he was 33 years old, on June 6th, the largest amphibious invasion in history was launched - the Normandy landing (called D-Day). She became as famous for her 8 marriages (to 7 people) as she was for her beauty and films.
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Her first small part in a movie was in There's One Born Every Minute in 1942 but her first starring role was in National Velvet in 1944. Her parents were Americans living in London and when she was 7, the family moved to Los Angeles. In 1932, by the time he was 21 years old, on February 27th, actress Elizabeth Taylor was born in London. He found that atoms had nuclei (a nucleus) and were circled by electrons, much as planets orbit the sun. In 1911, in the year that Andrew Pecunia was born, British physicist Ernest Rutherford (born in New Zealand), along with German physicist Hans Geiger, discovered the structure of an atom.

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