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''Solvitur ambulando'' is a Latin term which means: * It is solved by walking * The problem is solved by a practical experiment Diogenes of Sinope, also known as "Diogenes the Cynic", is said to have replied to the argument that motion is unreal by standing up and walking away.〔Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 39: "when somebody declared that there is no such thing as motion, (of Sinope ) got up and walked about (περιεπάτει )."〕 ==Citations== The phrase appears early in Lewis Carroll's "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles", where Achilles uses it to accentuate that he was indeed successful in overtaking Tortoise in their race to empirically test one of Zeno's paradoxes of motion. This passage also appears in Douglas Hofstadter's book ''Gödel, Escher, Bach'' (1979). In Dorothy L. Sayers's ''Clouds of Witness'' (1926), during the Duke of Denver's trial before the House of Lords, the Lord High Steward suggests (to laughter) ''solvitur ambulando'' to determine whether the decedent crawled or was dragged to a different location, as this was a matter of dispute between the prosecution and the defense. The phrase is also cited in "Walking" (1861) by Henry David Thoreau and in ''The Songlines'' (1986) by Bruce Chatwin in its first meaning. Chatwin, who 'passionately believed that walking constituted the sovereign remedy for every mental travail' learned it from Patrick Leigh Fermor and immediately wrote it down in his Moleskine notebook.〔Cooper, Artemis, ''Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure'' (2012), p.373, ISBN 978-0-7195-5449-0.〕 The phrase is discussed multiple times and at some length in ''The Tao of Travel'' (2011) by Paul Theroux. The phrase was used several times by Aleister Crowley in his writings. The phrase was the motto of the Royal Air Forces Escaping Society. The phrase was used several times by dr Oliver Sacks in his writings (''A Leg To Stand On'' etc.). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Solvitur ambulando」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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