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• APHORISM
• APHORISM (from the Gr. a4oA'ecv, to define)

APHORISM (from the Gr. a4oA'ecv, to define)  , literally a distinction or a See also:

• DEFINITION (Lat. definitio, from de-finire, to set limits to, describe)

definition, a See also:

• TERM

term used to describe a principle expressed tersely in a few telling words or any See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general truth conveyed in a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short and pithy See also:

• SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence, in such a way that when once heard it is unlikely to pass from the memory . The name was first used in the Aphorisms of See also:

• HIPPOCRATES

Hippocrates, a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of propositions concerning the symptoms and diagnosis of disease and the See also:

• ART

art of healing and See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine . The term came to be applied later to other sententious statements of See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, and later still to statements of all kinds of principles . Care must be taken not to confound aphorisms with axioms . Aphorisms came into being as the result of experience, whereas axioms are self-evident truths, requiring no See also:

• PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof, and appertain to pure See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason . Aphorisms have been especially used in dealing with subjects to which no methodical or scientific treatment was applied till See also:

• LATE

late, such as art, See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

agriculture, medicine, See also:

• JURISPRUDENCE (Lat. jurisprudenlia, knowledge of law, from jus, right, and prudentia, from providere, to foresee)
• JURISPRUDENCE, COMPARATIVE

jurisprudence and politics . The Aphorisms of Hippocrates See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form far the most celebrated as well as the earliest collection of the See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind, and it may be interesting to quote a few examples .