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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌeɪ ˌfɔːɹtiˈɔːɹaɪ/, /ˌeɪ ˌfɔːɹtiˈɔːɹi/, /ˌɑː-/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌeɪ ˌfoɹʃiˈoɹˌaɪ/, /ˌeɪ ˌfoɹtiˈoɹˌaɪ/, /ˌeɪ ˌfoɹʃiˈoɹi/, /ˌeɪ ˌfoɹtiˈoɹi/, /ˌɑ-/
• 韻: -ɔːɹaɪ, -ɔːɹi

形容詞

a fortiori (comparative more a fortiori, superlative most a fortiori)

1. (logic, rhetoric) With stronger or greater reason; as a corollary implied by a stronger claim; even more so; all the more so; so much the more.

副詞

a fortiori (comparative more a fortiori, superlative most a fortiori)

1. (logic, rhetoric) With stronger or greater reason; as a corollary implied by a stronger claim.
   • 1954, Gilbert Ryle, “dilemma vii: Perception”, in Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, page 103:

     Now starting and stopping cannot themselves have starts or stops, or, a fortiori, middles either.

   • 2011, Mortimer Jerome Adler, How to Prove There Is a God:

     We're bound to accept an a fortiori claim because of our prior acceptance of a weaker application of the same reasoning. Frank can't run to the store in less than five minutes, and the restaurant is several blocks further away than the store. Thus, a fortiori, Frank can't run to the restaurant in less than five minutes.

参考

• a posteriori
• a priori

参照

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈaː fɔr.tiˈoː.riː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈaː for.t͡siˈɔː.ri]

前置詞句

ā fortiōrī

1. (Medieval Latin, logic, rhetoric) a fortiori
   • 1486, Heinrich Kramer, “Pars prīma, Quaestiō nōna”, in Malleus maleficarum [The hammer of witches]‎:

     Cuius rei veritas vt magis elucescat queritur. An malefice valeant membra virilia virtute demonum vere et realiter vel solummodo prestigiosa apparitione auferre? et arguitur quod vere et realiter per argumentum a fortiori.

     [Cuius reī vēritās ut magis ēlūcēscat, quaeritur an maleficae valeant membra virīlia virtūte daemonum vērē et reāliter, vel sōlummodo praestīgiōsā appāritiōne auferre? et arguitur quod vērē et reāliter per argūmentum ā fortiōrī.]

     In order to make the truth of this matter clearer, it is asked whether witches can—with the help of devils—really and actually remove the virile members, or can only take them away through an illusion. And that they can really and actually do so is argued a fortiori.