Mutatis mutandis
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more or less literally, "with necessary changes being made" or "with necessary changes being taken into consideration" |
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more or less literally, "with necessary changes being made" or "with necessary changes being taken into consideration". This adverbial phrase is used in philosophy and logic to point out that although two conditions or statements may seem to be very analagous or similar, the reader should not lose sight of the differences between the two. Perhaps an even more easily understood translation might be "with obvious differences taken into consideration…" |
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"Outward forms are criteria in this regard. It is either false or insufficient to allege that St. Louis wore the costume of his period and that, mutatis mutandis, Louis XIV did the same; the truth is that St. Louis wore the dress of a Western Christian king, whereas Louis XIV wore that of a monarch who was already more "civilized" than Christian, the first epithet referring, needless to say, to "civilizationism" and not to civilization in the general sense of the word." (from "Remarks on some Kings of France" by Frithjof Schuon, Studies in Comparative Religion, Vol. 6, No. 1. (Winter, 1972). |
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