| 单词 |
protology |
| 释义 |
proˈtology|prəʊˈtɒlədʒɪ|
[ad. Gr. πρωτολογία the right of speaking first; see proto- and -logy.]
†1. Obs. rare—0. (See quots.)
1623Cockeram, Protologie, a preface. 1658Phillips, Protologie, a fore-speech, or Preface.
2. The study of or enquiry into origins. Hence protoˈlogical a., that pertains to what is original or primitive.
190321st Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. 1899–1900 138 In the quaint protology, or science of first things, of the Iroquois things are derived from things through transformation and evolution. 1937Proc. Prehist. Soc. III. 188 When man began to control his environment to a greater extent, ‘things’ became for him imbued with ‘force’, and in this way arose the magical and protological conception of the world. 1974Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie LX. 385 We have found that the learning of basic logical principles and methods via protological calculus has also a didactic advantage. 1977M. Goulder in J. Hick Myth of God Incarnate iv. 75 In place of the primitive eschatology, the stress would now fall on protology. |
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