Editing Mutatis mutandis (section)

{{short description|Medieval Latin phrase}}
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'''''Mutatis mutandis''''' is a [[Medieval Latin]] phrase meaning "with things changed that should be changed" or "once the necessary changes have been made", literally: having been changed, going to be changed.<ref name="Fennell">{{cite book  | last = Fennell
  | first = Charles Augustus Maude, Ed. 
  | title = The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases
  | publisher = University Press, Cambridge
  | date = 1891
  | page = [https://archive.org/details/stanforddiction00unkngoog/page/n579 563]
  | url = https://archive.org/details/stanforddiction00unkngoog
  | quote = mutatis mutandis.
  }}</ref><ref name="Adams">{{cite book   
  | last = Adams
  | first = Kenneth A. 
  | title = A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting
  | publisher = American Bar Association
  | date = 2004
  | page = [https://archive.org/details/manualo_ada_2004_00_2405/page/160 160]
  | url = https://archive.org/details/manualo_ada_2004_00_2405
  | url-access = registration
  | quote = mutatis mutandis.
  | isbn = 978-1590313800}}</ref><ref name="Mogck">{{cite book   
  | last = Mogck
  | first = Brian David 
  | title = Writing To Reason: A Companion for Philosophy Students and Instructors
  | publisher = John Wiley and Sons
  | date = 2008
  | page = 46
  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MTm1r4mdLWwC&dq=%22mutatis+mutandis&pg=PA46
  | isbn = 978-1405170994}}</ref> It continues to be seen as a foreign-origin phrase (and thus, unnaturalized, meaning not integrated as part of native vocabulary) in [[English language|English]] and is therefore usually [[italics|italicized]] in writing. It is used in many countries to acknowledge that a comparison being made requires certain obvious alterations, which are left unstated. It is not to be confused with the similar ''[[ceteris paribus]]'', which excludes any changes other than those explicitly mentioned. ''Mutatis mutandis'' is still used in [[law]], [[economics]], [[mathematics]], [[linguistics]] and [[philosophy]]. In particular, in [[logic]], it is encountered when discussing [[counterfactual conditional|counterfactuals]], as a shorthand for all the initial and derived changes which have been previously discussed.

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