a fortiori
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin ā (“from”) and fortiōrī, comparative of fortis (“strong”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Latinized) IPA(key): /ˈɑː fɔːɹtɪˈoʊɹiː/
- (US, Eastern New England) IPA(key): /ˈeɪ fɔɹʃˈjɔˑɹaɪ/
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Adjective[edit]
a fortiori (comparative more a fortiori, superlative most a fortiori)
Adverb[edit]
a fortiori (comparative more a fortiori, superlative most a fortiori)
- With stronger or greater reason; as a corollary implied by a stronger claim.
- 1954, Gilbert Ryle, “dilemma vii: Perception”, in Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, page 103:
- Now starting and stopping cannot themselves have starts or stops, or, a fortiori, middles either.
- 2011, Mortimer Jerome Adler, How to Prove There Is a God:
- We're bound to accept an a fortiori claim because of our prior acceptance of a weaker application of the same reasoning. Frank can't run to the store in less than five minutes, and the restaurant is several blocks further away than the store. Thus, a fortiori, Frank can't run to the restaurant in less than five minutes.
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Alternative forms[edit]
- à fortiori (misspelling)
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
a fortiori
- a fortiori (A form of argumentation that draws upon existing confidence in a proposition to argue in favor of a second proposition that is held to be implicit in, and even more certain than, the first.)
- Synonym: à plus forte raison
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From both Latin ā (“from, away from, out of”), alternative form of ab (“from, away from, out of, down from”) by apocope (not used before a vowel or h), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”), and from fortiōrī, comparative of fortis (“strong”), from Proto-Italic *forktis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
- (rhetoric, logic) a fortiori (with stronger or greater reason; as a corollary implied by a stronger claim.)
- begrepet «a fortiori» anvendes i matematiske og logiske argumenter, hvis f.eks. a er større enn b og b større enn c, så er «a fortiori» a større enn c
- the term «a fortiori» is used in mathematical and logical arguments, if e.g. a is greater than b and b greater than c, then «a fortiori» a is greater than c
- 1933, Samtiden, page 169:
- Norge … har vært forpliktet til ikke å bestride den danske suverenitet over hele Grønland og à fortiori til å avholde sig fra å okkupere en del av landet
- Norway… has been obliged not to contest the Danish sovereignty over the whole of Greenland and a fortiori to refrain from occupying part of the country
- 1997, Espen Schaanning, Vitenskap som skapt viten, page 298:
- hvis man … kan vise at fengslet faktisk ikke er så gjennomsyret av disiplinformer som Foucault vil ha det til, så faller følgelig også a fortiori påstanden om at samfunnet skulle være disiplinært
- if one… can show that the prison is in fact not as permeated by forms of discipline as Foucault wants it to be, then consequently also falls a fortiori the claim that society should be disciplinary
- 2008 June 20, Morgenbladet, page 22:
- de kan ikke a fortiori – desto mer – utelukke å finne semantisk innhold også i religiøse ytringer
- they cannot a fortiori - all the more - exclude finding semantic content also in religious utterances
Related terms[edit]
- a posteriori (“a posteriori”)
- a priori (“a priori”)
References[edit]
- “a_fortiori” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “a fortiori” in Store norske leksikon
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