In certain contexts, I take ceteris paribus to serve the same social function as "IMHO"
I've never heard of that, and I have no idea why you would want to do that. Does anyone else actually use ceteris paribus to mean something like "IMHO"?
Both are often used to imply some measure of humility, in order to ward off criticism when making a statement which one expects to be controverted. Ditto for "It seems to me", etc.
(Since there didn't seem to be one for this month, and I just ran across a nice quote.)
A monthly thread for posting any interesting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently on the Internet, or had stored in your quotesfile for ages.