- In
legal writing, a
dictum (Latin 'something that has been said';
plural dicta) is a
statement made by a court. It may or may not be
binding as a precedent...
- Hickam's
dictum is a
counterargument to the use of Occam's
razor in the
medical profession.
While Occam's
razor suggests that the
simplest explanation...
-
Obiter dictum (usually used in the plural,
obiter dicta) is a
Latin phrase meaning "other
things said", that is, a
remark in a
legal opinion that is "said...
- The
Dictum of
Kenilworth (Latin:
Dictum de Kenilworth),
issued on 31
October 1266, was a
pronouncement designed to
reconcile the
rebels of the Second...
-
according to Hume's
dictum, it is
possible to have one
event without the other. An even
wider application is to use Hume's
dictum as an
axiom of modality...
-
coined the
phrase "tough and competent",
which became known as the "Kranz
Dictum".
Kranz has been the
subject of movies, do****entary films, and
books and...
- Chekhov's gun (or Chekhov's rifle; Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a
narrative principle that
states that
every element in a
story must be
necessary and irrelevant...
-
famous dictum supposedly uttered by
Socrates at his
trial for
impiety and
corrupting youth, for
which he was
subsequently sentenced to death. The
dictum is...
-
accident (also
called destroying the
exception or a
dicto simpliciter ad
dictum secundum quid) is an
informal fallacy where a
general rule is
applied to...
- In
Aristotelian logic,
dictum de omni et
nullo (Latin: "the
maxim of all and none") is the
principle that
whatever is
affirmed or
denied of a
whole kind...
