What 3-word Latin phrase means an indispensable condition or action?
Sine qua non Sine qua non Sine qua non (; ) or condicio sine qua non (plural: "condiciones sine quibus non") is an indispensable and essential action, condition, or ingredient. It was originally a Latin legal term for "[a condition] without which it could not be", or "but for..." or "without which [there is] nothing". ""Sine qua non" causation" is the formal terminology for "but-for causation". As a Latin term, it occurs in the work of Boethius, and originated in Aristotelian expressions. In Classical Latin, the form uses the word (from the verb , , to agree upon), but in later Latin the
Latin word order a sentence, therefore. Other words, such as "fere" "approximately" and "etiam", are frequently enclitic: In the phrase "ne ... quidem" "not even", the word "quidem" generally follows the first word of the emphasised phrase, rather than the whole phrase: Personal pronouns such as "me" "me" and "mihi" "to me" can have weak and strong forms in Latin. When weak they tend to be found early in the sentence, either after the first word (which can be a conjunction such as "cum" "when" or "et" "and") or after an enclitic such as "enim", if present: Contrast sentences like the following, where