experimentum crucisn.

/ɛkspɛrɪˌmɛntəm ˈkruːsɪs/

Etymology: modern Latin, ‘crucial experiment’: see crucial adj. 2.

A decisive test that shows which one of several hypotheses is correct; a crucial experiment.

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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > crucial or decisive test

experimentum crucis1751

acid test1854

litmus test1957

1672 Newton Light & Colours i The gradual removal of these suspicions at length led me to the Experimentum Crucis.]

1751 D. Hume Enq. Princ. Morals v. ii. 84 The Experimentum crucis, or that Experiment, which points out the Way we should follow, in any Doubt or Ambiguity.

1814 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 104 212 We may therefore consider the preceding result as an experimentum crucis, which establishes the opinion respecting the structure of the agate.

1856 Spiritual Herald Mar. 37 The injustice of our opponents in imposing any conditions of their own at an experimentum crucis of this kind.

1880 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 169 The partizans of feelings of efferent innervation regard them [sc. illusions of a certain kind] as experimenta crucis.

1949 W. Kneale Probability & Induction §22. 110 If..they..cannot devise an experimentum crucis, they begin to suspect that the two rival hypotheses differ only in their symbolic formulation.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

单词	experimentum crucis
释义	experimentum crucisn. /ɛkspɛrɪˌmɛntəm ˈkruːsɪs/ Etymology: modern Latin, ‘crucial experiment’: see crucial adj. 2. A decisive test that shows which one of several hypotheses is correct; a crucial experiment. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > crucial or decisive test experimentum crucis1751 acid test1854 litmus test1957 1672 Newton Light & Colours i The gradual removal of these suspicions at length led me to the Experimentum Crucis.] 1751 D. Hume Enq. Princ. Morals v. ii. 84 The Experimentum crucis, or that Experiment, which points out the Way we should follow, in any Doubt or Ambiguity. 1814 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 104 212 We may therefore consider the preceding result as an experimentum crucis, which establishes the opinion respecting the structure of the agate. 1856 Spiritual Herald Mar. 37 The injustice of our opponents in imposing any conditions of their own at an experimentum crucis of this kind. 1880 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 169 The partizans of feelings of efferent innervation regard them [sc. illusions of a certain kind] as experimenta crucis. 1949 W. Kneale Probability & Induction §22. 110 If..they..cannot devise an experimentum crucis, they begin to suspect that the two rival hypotheses differ only in their symbolic formulation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1751
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