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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

per alia en · ADV

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin per alia, from per (“by; through”) + alia (“others”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) By others; through others. Said of a proposition held to be true because it follows from other true propositions.
    • If humans are mortal, and Socrates is a human, then per alia Socrates is mortal.

Relateds

per se