The word "or" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to denote a choice between two options. For example: "Would you like coffee or tea?".
He put to his father a scheme for traveling to Italy with the Webers, which, naive and irresponsible, met with an angry response: "Off with you to Paris! and that soon, find your place among great people aut Caesar aut nihil".
Berkeley argued ingeniously that esse est percipi (aut percipere), "to be is to be perceived (or to perceive)"—everything real is either an idea or a mind (see idealism).
At moments like these, even hardened Beckettians may feel their thoughts drift toward the peerless parody of a typical writer's letter, as devised by James Thurber: "B — dropped in yesterday (Icky was out at the time) and gave some sort of report on Neddy but I am afraid I didn't listen (ut ediendam aut debendo!).
McKenzie's department eve designed landing spaces for skyscraper roofs and recommended that the roof of the new Post Office be designed so aut giros could land on them.
Whether Rowlands ran out of aut obiographical material or just wanted a new challenge, his latest book is an ambitious attempt to try another way of blurring the line between showing and telling.
The AUT advises you to use only good quality luggage, not to put valuables in bags checked into the hold and to take out travel insurance.
The Romans knew this game of chance as navia aut caput, translated as "ship or head", as some coins had a ship on one side and the head of the emperor on the other.
Berkeley holds that there are no such mind-independent things, that, in the famous phrase, esse est percipi (aut percipere) — to be is to be perceived (or to perceive).
Since the negation of a 0110 disjunction is a 1110 disjunction (either both disjuncts are true or both disjuncts are false), this use of aut cannot be a 0110 disjunctive use. the sentence cannot be construed as a disjunction.
The idea is, first, that whereas English has only one or-word, Latin has two: vel and aut, and secondly, that the uses of vel in Latin would be representable as 1110 disjunction and the uses of aut as 0110 disjunction.
Quaracchi V 308b-309a): "Cum autem non-esse privatio sit essendi, non cadit in intellectum nisi per esse; esse autem non cadit per aliud, quia omne quod intelligitur, aut intelligitur ut non ens, aut ut ens in potentia, aut ut ens in actu.
