- In
legal writing, a
dictum (Latin 'something that has been said';
plural dicta) is a
statement made by a court. It may or may not be
binding as a precedent...
-
Obiter dictum (usually used in the plural,
obiter dicta) is a
Latin phrase meaning "said in p****ing", that is, any
remark in a
legal opinion that is "said...
- The
Dictum of
Kenilworth (Latin:
Dictum de Kenilworth),
issued on 31
October 1266, was a
pronouncement designed to
reconcile the
rebels of the Second...
-
coined the
phrase "tough and competent",
which became known as the "Kranz
Dictum".
Kranz has been the
subject of movies, do****entary films, and
books and...
- Hickam's
dictum is a
medical principle that a patient's
symptoms could be
caused by
several diseases. It is a
counterargument to
misapplying Occam's razor...
- In music, a
dictum (Latin 'something that has been said';
plural dicta) is a type of
libretto for a
church cantata consisting of
quotes from
sacred scripture...
- of ver ("true", from the
Latin vērus) and dit ("speech", from the
Latin dictum, the
neuter past
participle of dīcere, to say). In a
criminal case, the...
- Chekhov's gun (or Chekhov's rifle; Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a
narrative principle emphasizing that
every element in a
story be necessary,
while irrelevant...
-
according to Hume's
dictum, it is
possible to have one
event without the other. An even
wider application is to use Hume's
dictum as an
axiom of modality...
-
accident (also
called destroying the
exception or a
dicto simpliciter ad
dictum secundum quid) is an
informal fallacy where a
general rule is
applied to...
