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Appeal to the stone, also
known as
argumentum ad
lapidem, is a
logical fallacy that
dismisses an
argument as
untrue or absurd. The
dismissal is made by...
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serious sweet immutable Title of a poem by
James Elroy Flecker gutta cavat lapidem [non vi sed
saepe cadendo] a
water drop
hollows a
stone [not by force,...
- an
acronym for "Visita
Interiora Terræ
Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem", an
alchemic motto that can be
roughly translated as "Visit the interior...
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serious sweet immutable Title of a poem by
James Elroy Flecker gutta cavat lapidem [non vi sed
saepe cadendo] a
water drop
hollows a
stone [not by force,...
- dedisti. / Vae mihi: pro
tanto munere saxa dabo / Quam mallem,
amoueat lapidem,
bonus angelus orem /
Exeat Christi corpus,
imago tua~~ / Sed nil vota...
- in the
backronym Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem), also
lapis noster,
lapis occultus, in
water at the box, and numerous...
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already spent an hour
trying to jump.
Appeal to the
stone (argumentum ad
lapidem) –
dismissing a
claim as
absurd without demonstrating proof for its absurdity...
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acrostic in Latin:
Visita interiora terrae rectificando invenies occultum lapidem, lit. 'visit the
interior of the
earth and by
rectifying you will find...
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proclaimed of Berkeley's theory, "I re****e it thus!" (See also
argumentum ad
lapidem.) A
related concept is that of the red herring,
which is a
deliberate attempt...
- be a form of
begging the question, and it is also a
special case of ad
lapidem.
Argument from
ignorance (argumentum ad ignorantiam)
Argumentation theory...
