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per impossibile

per impossibile adverb: as is impossible.

Adverb

per impossibile (not comparable)

  1. As is impossible.
    • 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...
    • 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

Origin of per impossibile

Borrowed from Latin per impossibile.

Questions about per impossibile

What does per impossibile mean?
Per impossibile means as is impossible.
What part of speech is per impossibile?
Per impossibile is an adverb.

Words near per impossibile in the dictionary

  1. per contra
  2. per curiam
  3. per diem
  4. per diems
  5. per fess
  6. per impossibile
  7. per litt.
  8. per mensem
  9. per mil
  10. per mill
  11. per mille

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