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ig-NO-tuhm pur ig-NO-tee-uhs
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explaining something difficult to comprehend by reference to something even harder to comprehend
1400The Canterbury Tales'Yea, Sir, and is it thus? This is ignotum per ignotius. What is Magnesia, good Sir, I pray?'1909Darwin and Modern ScienceHe refused to supplement them by hypothetical geographical changes for which there was no independent evidence: this was simply to attempt to explain ignotum per ignotius.1989The Great and Secret ShowObscurum per obscurius, ignotum per ignotius, they advised. Let the obscure be explained by the more obscure, the unknown by the more unknown.Labels: A. C. Seward, Clive Barker, Geoffrey Chaucer
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