“experimentum crucis”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

experimentum crucis

释义

‖ experimentum crucis|ɛkspɛrɪˌmɛntəm ˈkruːsɪs|
[mod.L., ‘crucial experiment’: see crucial a. 2.]
A decisive test that shows which one of several hypotheses is correct; a crucial experiment.
1672[see crucial a. 2].1751Hume Eng. Princ. Mor. v. ii. 84 The Experimentum crucis, or that Experiment, which points out the Way we should follow, in any Doubt or Ambiguity.1814Phil. Trans. R. Soc. CIV. 212 We may therefore consider the preceding result as an experimentum crucis, which establishes the opinion respecting the structure of the agate.1856Spiritual Herald Mar. 37 The injustice of our opponents in imposing any conditions of their own at an experimentum crucis of this kind.1880W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 169 The partizans of feelings of efferent innervation regard them [sc. illusions of a certain kind] as experimenta crucis.1949W. Kneale Probability §22. 110 If..they..cannot devise an experimentum crucis, they begin to suspect that the two rival hypotheses differ only in their symbolic formulation.

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