Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Latin term or phrase:
De ornnibus dubitandum
English translation:
Everything should be doubted.
Added to glossary by
Antoinette Verburg
Mar 26, 2002 22:34
22 yrs ago
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Latin term
de ornnibus dubitandum
Non-PRO
Latin to English
Art/Literary
Nietzche's Beyond Good and Evil
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +2 | Everything should be doubted. |
Antoinette Verburg
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| 4 | All is to be doubted |
Hans Hereijgers
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| 4 | everything must be doubted |
Jacek Krankowski (X)
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| 4 | Everything is to be questioned. |
Chris Rowson (X)
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| 1 | Doubting everything. |
gdomolina
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Proposed translations
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7 mins
Antoinette Verburg
Netherlands
Netherlands
Netherlands
2 MA degrees and 32 years of experience
Native in: Dutch 
Works in: English to Dutch, Dutch
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Everything should be doubted.
I wonder if this should be 'De omnibus dubitandum'?
In that case, it means 'Everything should be doubted'.
In that case, it means 'Everything should be doubted'.
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9 mins
Hans Hereijgers
Native in: Flemish
Works in: Spanish to Dutch, English to Dutch, French to Dutch, and 3 more.
All is to be doubted
cf.
http://home.earthlink.net/~promethean/quotes.html
De omnibus dubitandum. All is to be doubted. (Rene Descartes)
HTH.
http://home.earthlink.net/~promethean/quotes.html
De omnibus dubitandum. All is to be doubted. (Rene Descartes)
HTH.
9 mins
Jacek Krankowski (X)
Jacek Krankowski (X)
Working daily with international lawyers
Works in: English to Polish, Polish to English, Italian to Polish
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Related KudoZ points
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10
everything must be doubted
de omnibus dubitandum;
everything must be doubted,
www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ira/illich/texts/fromm_on_illich/fromm...
everything must be doubted,
www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ira/illich/texts/fromm_on_illich/fromm...
5 hrs
Everything is to be questioned.
Or "everything is to be put into question".
As alternatives.
As alternatives.
Reference:
15 hrs
Doubting everything.
Not quite sure, but it may serve as a variant.....
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