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  • Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

    Bird Teeth 2008

  • You see, there's a very important principle in theology which lays it down that miracula non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

    She Doesn't Pay Her Musicians! John 2008

  • Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

    Beckwith on ID 2008

  • Consequently, the fourth rule of Gregory IX expressly states: Propter necessitatem, illicitum efficitur licitum — “Necessity makes licit what is illicit.”

    Clarification 2009

  • Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

    Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved 2007

  • Consequently, the fourth rule of Gregory IX expressly states: Propter necessitatem, illicitum efficitur licitum — “Necessity makes licit what is illicit.”

    Clarification 2009

  • Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

    Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved 2007

  • If the industrial economies of the world are in a forced slowdown, if auto companies - the manufacturers of those demonic gas-guzzling SUVs - are facing ruin, if long-standing business are cutting their work forces by 20 per cent and 30 per cent and 40 per cent, if people are buying less and, consequently, business is making less, then surely the entire world's carbon emissions are, per necessitatem, going down.

    Welcome to the Green World... GayandRight 2009

  • The only one of these that is Logically binding is the original formulation, "entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem", which can be expressed in mathematical terms by saying that A+B=C is better than A+D-D+B=C.

    A new value for Minoan 'd' 2009

  • St. Austin, in the first book of his confess. et 4 ca. calls this schooling meliculosam necessitatem, and elsewhere a martyrdom, and confesseth of himself, how cruelly he was tortured in mind for learning Greek, nulla verba noveram, et saevis terroribus et poenis, ut nossem, instabatur mihi vehementer,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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