ignotum per ignotius

短语
中文释义

英文释义

短语
  1. An attempt to explain something obscure in terms of something else which is even more obscure.
  2. A type of fallacious argument in which one attempts to prove something unknown by relying upon an assumption that is also unknown.

词汇关系

近义词
obscurum per obscurius

词源

From Latin ignōtum per ignōtius, “[to explain] the unknown by the more unknown”.
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