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Ceteris Paribus
/ˈsɛtəɹɪs ˈpæɹɪbəs/
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What does Ceteris Paribus mean?
adverb
- All things being equal; with all other things or factors remaining the same; other things held constant; all else unchanged.
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/ˈsɛtəɹɪs ˈpæɹɪbəs/
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That these must be costly stands to reason, for the waste of our own military forces must, ceteris paribus, always be greater the more our aim is directed upon the destruction of the enemy’s power.
He even goes further, and says that it is conceivable, by successive impregnations effected by him, that the influence may be increased, and if so the younger children begotten by him, rather than the elder, might be expected, ceteris paribus, to bear their father's image.
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So again the primary sexual organs, and those for nourishing or protecting the young, come under the same influence; for those individuals which generated or nourished their offspring best, would leave, ceteris paribus, the greatest number to inherit their superiority; whilst those which generated or nourished their offspring badly, would leave but few to inherit their weaker powers.