I'm asking if there's a clear distinction or reason for using ceteris paribus, if the answer is "Nope, it's just so you can sound smarter / demonstrate you're in the I-know-what-this-means club" that's fine by me, I just didn't want to assume that. and and so on, but the former is both more concise and in common usage. Perhaps it is simply my perception, but ceteris paribus has always struck me as more confusing than the equivalent English.įor example, there's not (much of) a difference between etc. (Or jacta, the way wed spell it today, since the I/J is a semivowel, not a vowel, and jacta has only two syllables.) For what its worth, the Wikipedia article on that sentence notes that by Caesars time, dice had been used in gaming for. With this step, he entered Italy at the head of his army in defiance of the Senate and began his long. What statement is Julius Caesar famous for There are several statements that Caesar was famous for, the most notable three being: 'Alea iacta est. Its hard to look up alea without getting the entire sentence alea iacta est throw back in your face. I suppose I should clarify there are certainly many usages of Latin throughout modern English, however generally speaking these usages are more concise, or describe a concept that doesn't directly map to English. Alea iacta est ('The die is cast') is a variation of a Latin phrase ( iacta alea est jakta al.a st) attributed by Suetonius to Julius Caesar on January 10, 49 BC, as he led his army across the Rubicon river in Northern Italy. I'm curious why this phrase is used, if there is an advantage to using it over one of the equivalent English phrases, and in particular would love to see examples where ceteris paribus conveys the author's intent more clearly than the alternatives might.
To me, it has always obfuscated more than it clarifies.
It has always struck me as strange that we (primarily Economists, but it crops up elsewhere too, usually in academia) need a Latin phrase to stand in for the seemingly clear English statements the definition provides.
A Latin phrase meaning "with other things the same" or "other things being equal or held constant".