单词 | axiomata media |
释义 | axiomata median. Philosophy. (See quot. 1934.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical reasoning > [noun] > deductivism or a priori reasoning > a principle or axiom > middle principles axiomata media1833 1833 J. S. Mill in Monthly Repository 7 669. 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic II. vi. v. 524 The principles of Ethology are properly the middle principles, the axiomata media (as Bacon would have said) of the science of mind... Bacon has judiciously observed that the axiomata media of every science principally constitute its value. 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Axiomata media, middle principles; those general principles which are above simple empirical laws, yet inferior to the highest generalizations, or to such as are taken to be fundamental. 1937 A. H. Murray Philos. of James Ward vii. 154 Philosophy wants axiomata media. It is only by such middle principles or mediating principles that it can hope to arrive at a view of the world in which all the knowledges of the various sciences will form a unified whole. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1833 |
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