corollary
A gift beyond what is actually dueA gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity.
» "Treat others as you would like to be treated" should be accompanied with the corollary "Be reasonable."
«Относись к другим так, как хочешь, чтобы относились к тебе» надо дополнить следствием: «Будь разумен».
Meaning
3 sensesA gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity.
An a fortiori occurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.
Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront.
A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.
We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary, we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.
Korollar, Folgesatz
сле́дствиеslédstvije
(logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition
Examples
2 sentences"Treat others as you would like to be treated" should be accompanied with the corollary "Be reasonable."
ru«Относись к другим так, как хочешь, чтобы относились к тебе» надо дополнить следствием: «Будь разумен».
Mike Godwin himself rejects the alleged corollary to his famous law, that whoever makes a Nazi comparison has lost the argument.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English, from Late Latin corōllārium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuitFrom Middle English, from Late Latin corōllārium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, corollary; consequence, deduction”), from corōlla (“small garland”), diminutive of corōna (“crown”).
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Forms
plural: corollaries| Singular | corollary |
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