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From: sci.math on 21 Jun 2010 06:42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plowing the Dark A Machine Aided Novel by by M. M. M. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This is how I was born. Prolog // Download Words by William Whitaker . . . Help // Input Latin: novel // Two words // May be 2 words combined (no+vel) // If not obvious, probably incorrect // swim, float; // even, actually; or even, in deed; or; // or; [either ... or] // Translate English to Latin // lesser // young, tender; They were all the words I had. The rest was all in Latin. I was starting from scratch. I had to listen and learn as I read. // a capite ad calcem from head to heel from top to bottom; all the // way through (colloquially "from head to toe"). Equally a pedibus // usque ad caput. They say you can learn everything about any living thing simply by its language. Once an initial pattern is established everything simply repeats through time. // a contrario from the opposite Equivalent to "on the contrary" or // "au contraire". An argumentum a contrario is an "argument from the // contrary", an argument or proof by contrast or direct opposite. // a Deucalione since Deucalion A long time ago. From Gaius Lucilius // (Satires, 6, 284) They say. // a fortiori from the stronger Loosely, "even more so" or "with even // stronger reason". Often used to lead from less certain // proposition to a more evident corollary. Ask me if I believe in religion and I will tell you I do not know what it means. // a mari usque ad mare from sea to sea From Psalm 72:8, "Et // dominabitur a mari usque ad mare, et a flumine usque ad terminos // terrae" (KJV: "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and // from the river unto the ends of the earth"). National motto of // Canada. This means nothing to me. // a pedibus usque ad caput from feet to head Completely. Similar to // the English expressions "from tip to toe" or "from top to toe". Ask several verses the same thing as the first. // Equally a capite ad calcem. See also ab ovo usque ad mala. // a posse ad esse from being able to being "From possibility to // actuality" or "from being possible to being actual" // a posteriori from the latter Based on observation (i.e., empirical // knowledge), the reverse of a priori. This I understand. In mathematics and logic to have done something known after a proof has been carried out. In philosophy, it can mean empirical experiences. // a priori from the former Presupposed, All right, now youre speaking my language. // the reverse of a posteriori. Used in mathematics and logic to // denote something known or postulated before a proof has been // carried out. In philosophy, used to denote something // known without empirical experience. I see it now. Something occurring known before it happens, something vast. // Ab initio mundi means "from the beginning of the world". // ad undas to the waves Equivalent to "to hell". I like the first one better. // ad usum proprium (ad us. propr.) for one's own use For my own purpose. // ad usu adequatio intellectus et rei One to one correspondence of mind and // ad usu reality Is one of the two definitions of truth? When the mind // ad usu has the same form as reality, we think truth. I am here. I am here. Who is here? Who is we? // adsum I am here Equivalent to "Present!" or "Here!" The opposite of // absum (I am absent). The second verse is the same as the first. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |