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ceteris paribus: How edible is it? :) #1 (permalink) Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:55 am   ceteris paribus: How edible is it? :)
 

Hi

In my first languge there is a fixed phrase for that and I normally use(d) it a lot, formally and informally.
You know, making some statement, It's often necessary to add "with all other factors or things remaining the same".

As English dictionaries give the Latin phrase for that, I admit that it's a part of English language. As vise versa, for example.
But to me and to my taste ceteris paribus is too much for any spoken language.

Do you use the Latin phrase? Or what fixed phrase do/would you use instead of?
Just what dictionaries give as a translation? (with all other things/conditions/factors being equal)?
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ceteris paribus: How edible is it? :) #2 (permalink) Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:55 am   ceteris paribus: How edible is it? :)
 

Yet another new phrase for us (so, no, I've never used it):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceteris_paribus

And, for the use of the phrase in context (plus some examples of the second and third conditionals):

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ceteris paribus

"other things being equal," or "other things happening normally," as in the following dialogue:

Henry: Careful! You almost dropped the vase. If you dropped it, it would shatter, and Mom would kill us.

Lola: It might not have shattered. Maybe a gust of wind would have blown the pillow off the couch just as I dropped it, and it would have landed on the pillow.

Henry: You know what I mean. If you had dropped the vase, then, if things had otherwise happened normally, the vase would have hit the ground and shattered.

http://www.jimpryor.net/teaching/vocab/glossary.html
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