de ornnibus dubitandum

English translation: Everything should be doubted.

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Latin term or phrase:De ornnibus dubitandum
English translation:Everything should be doubted.
Entered by: Antoinette Verburg

22:34 Mar 26, 2002
Latin to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary
Latin term or phrase: de ornnibus dubitandum
Nietzche's Beyond Good and Evil
Everything should be doubted.
Explanation:
I wonder if this should be 'De omnibus dubitandum'?
In that case, it means 'Everything should be doubted'.
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Antoinette Verburg
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Local time: 09:44
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2Everything should be doubted.
Antoinette Verburg
4All is to be doubted
Hans Hereijgers
4everything must be doubted
Jacek Krankowski (X)
4Everything is to be questioned.
Chris Rowson (X)
1Doubting everything.
gdomolina


  

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Everything should be doubted.


Explanation:
I wonder if this should be 'De omnibus dubitandum'?
In that case, it means 'Everything should be doubted'.


    Reference: http://home.earthlink.net/~promethean/quotes.html
Antoinette Verburg
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Local time: 09:44
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agree  mgonzalez (X)
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agree  Chris Rowson (X): Yes. I will offer an alternative translation though.
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All is to be doubted


Explanation:
cf.
http://home.earthlink.net/~promethean/quotes.html
De omnibus dubitandum. All is to be doubted. (Rene Descartes)

HTH.

Hans Hereijgers
Local time: 09:44
Native speaker of: Native in FlemishFlemish
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everything must be doubted


Explanation:
de omnibus dubitandum;
everything must be doubted,
www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ira/illich/texts/fromm_on_illich/fromm...

Jacek Krankowski (X)
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Everything is to be questioned.


Explanation:
Or "everything is to be put into question".

As alternatives.


    Reference: http://www.cwu.edu/~millerj/nietzsche/bge1.html
Chris Rowson (X)
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Doubting everything.


Explanation:
Not quite sure, but it may serve as a variant.....

gdomolina
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