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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

per impossibile en · ADV

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin per impossibile.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) As is impossible.
    • If, per impossibile, large economic inequalities did not threaten political, legal, and social equality, they would be much less objectionable. 1979, Thomas Nagel, Mortal Questions, essay 8: “Equality”, page 107:
    • Moreover it is evident that all incomplete syllogisms are completed by means of the first figure, for all of them are concluded, either ostensively or per impossible, but in both ways the first figure is produced […] 1853 [c. 350 BCE], Aristotle, translated by Octavius Freire Owen, The Organon, or Logical Treatises of Aristotle, volume 1, London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, translation of original in Ancient Greek, page 98: