| Title: | Discussions from a Christian Perspective |
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| Moderator: | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE |
| Created: | Mon Sep 17 1990 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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I came across this Latin phrase in a book by Michael Marshall, the director of
Anglican Institute�. I can guess from the context, which is
"Ultimate proff of the hypothesis can only be discovered by acting
out the program on the basis of the hypothesis. Solvitur ambulando
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is not the only way to walk by faith, but it is also the way by
which the scientist pursues his or her experiments."
But I'd like a translation. Its not in my Latin tag book, probasbly because
its church Latin.
Thanks,
Joan
�"The Gospel Connection", published by Morehouse.
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| 424.1 | It is solved by being traversed | KALI::EWANCO | Eric James Ewanco, MLO LENaC | Sat Mar 21 1992 22:53 | 22 |
Hi ... I am not an expert on the meanings of Latin phrases in English
(often such phrases have an entirely different meaning in English than
their literal translation) but I can offer a literal translation from
my knowledge of Classical Latin.
Solvitur -- passive 3rd person singular present indicative -- it is
loosened, untied, released, freed, dissolved, broken up, exempted,
weakened, paid off, solved
ambulando -- root is ambulare, to walk, now to decode the ending ...
looks like future passive participle, ablative or dative ... ah,
probably dative of agent.
It is solved by being traversed.
That's rought -- I couldn't fit in the future part of the ambulando. So
the "traversed" part is in the future. Maybe, "It is solved when it
will be traversed" but that's ugly.
Close enough?
Eric Ewanco
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| 424.2 | clarification | KALI::EWANCO | Eric James Ewanco, MLO LENaC | Sat Mar 21 1992 22:55 | 6 |
oh, by the way, if you're confused by what "traversed" means, I think
that the phrase means something like, it is solved by actually being
performed or walked through, executed; i.e., we know the answer by
doing it and not until then.
Eric
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| 424.3 | Assuming it's true | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | Peace: the Final Frontier | Tue Mar 24 1992 20:08 | 10 |
Re: .0
I would say that it means roughly "Walking (or behaving) as though the
hypothesis was the correct answer."
This is basically a verification technique used by many fields of
research and study.
Peace,
Richard
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