Word: ergo
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...swampo." By 1841 the mock Latin for "will not come out of the swamp" was widely accepted backwoods legal terminology for "unavailable." An Illinois tavern keeper posted notice of a delinquent barfly who disappeared without paying his tab: "Non est inventus ad libitum scape goatum non comeatibus in swampo. Ergo, non catchibus, non prosecutibus, non tryabus, non chastisibus...
Assumed Certitude. Just as religion is necessary to the political life, so is it necessary to the intellectual life of modernity, which "has largely lost the way to ripen the fruit of its own genius." When Descartes announced his famous Cogito, ergo sum as the basis for a philosophy, neither he nor his successors realized that he actually was assuming that "his private certitude was everyman's certitude in kind." Modern men, taking him at face value, not only plunged "into his subjective depths"; they also tended to accept his belief that the physical universe is merely a mathematical...
...merely a byproduct of laboratory processing of the serum, Heath took half a pint of blood from patients, removed the cells, and directly injected the serum into volunteers. They promptly developed what looked like mild, temporary, schizophrenic symptoms. With similar blood from normal subjects there was no such reaction. Ergo, argued Heath, taraxein (whatever it is) is real, and appears naturally in schizophrenics...
...body has suffered as a result of Christian morality served to sharpen its erotic impact. The formula of the classical ideal had been more protective than any drapery; whereas the shape of the Gothic body, which suggested that it was normally clothed, gave it the impropriety of a secret." Ergo, a rebirth of interest in the human form as a subject of art in the Renaissance, although with a different view of man implicit in every muscle, for the Renaissance--especially the Michelangelo--nude was burdened with a soul...
...studious Roommate is quiet and rarely exhibitive. But his sensitive composure is liable to be shattered by a loud sneeze. Ergo, if you would retain his affection, muffle your sneeze, perhaps in his Thesaurus...