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a fortiori

2023年02月20日 | 英単語
Gary Marcus and Ernest Davisの "Rebooting AI" を読み始めました。

本文に入る前に書かれている引用文から引用します。

Althogh this wave of popularity is certainly pleasand and exciting for those of us working in the field, it carries at the same time an element of danger. While we feel that information theory is indeed a valuable tool in providing fundamental insights into the nature of communication problems and will continue to grow in importance, it is certainly no panacea for the communication engineer or, a fortiori, for anyone else. Seldom do more than a few of nature's secrets give way at one time. It will be all too easy for our somewhat artificial prosperity to collapse overnight when it is realized that the use of a few exciting words like information, entropy, redundancy, do not solve all our prblems. (Claude E. Shannon)

"fortiori" では辞書の検索にひっからず、"a fortiori" (a が付いていることに注意)で次の説明が見つかりました、

・Macmillan Dictionary: used for saying that something that is true for one case is even more true in another case: If this was the interpretation of the term in the 1916 Act, there is, a fortiori, no reason why it should not be similarly construed in the 1968 Act.
・Collins Dictionary: for similar but more convincing reasons: the act was intended not only in regard to employers but a fortiori in regard to directors
・Vocabulary.com: with greater reason; for a still stronger, more certain reason: “if you are wrong then, a fortiori, so am I”
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