On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote:

> In "*Ceteris paribus*, Dr. Jekyll tans his own Hyde
> <http://ecologicalheadstand.blogspot.com/2014/09/ceteris-paribus-dr-jekyll-tans-his-own.html>"
> I review some recent discussion of the *ceteris paribus* clause and
> re-examine the role of the ambiguous clause in the debate between Thornton
> and Cairnes over the wages-fund doctrine.
>
> the meaning of  "*ceteris paribus"  *is "abstracting from all factors not
> specified."  Nothing else.  No ambiguity whatsoever.
>
>

I thought the literal meaning of "ceteris paribus" was "all other things
being equal", which is far from unambiguous..
-raghu.
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