per alia

adv

adv

Etymology Borrowed from Latin per alia, from per (“by; through”) + alia (“others”).

By others; through others. Said of a proposition held to be true because it follows from other true propositions.

If humans are mortal, and Socrates is a human, then per alia Socrates is mortal.

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