Mutatis-mutandis

Mutatis-mutandis is a Latin phrase, meaning literally: “what was to change having been changed”, and that one could translate in a more limpid way by: " Once carried out the changes nécessaires". This phrase thus indicates to the reader that one will proceed to a Analogie, with a bringing together of two similar situations, which one will voluntarily withdraw the dissimilarities - " in front of being changées" so that a real bringing together can take place.

For example, one will say: Sociology is with the social sciences what physics is, mutatis-mutandis , with the natural science. This phrase thus makes it possible to avoid a hard periphrasis of type: " sociology is with the social sciences what physics is with the natural science, if one excludes however the basic differences of method and object of these two sciences which… etc, etc."

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List of the Latin phrases

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