| 单词 | anthropic |
| 释义 | anthropic, a.|ænˈθrɒpɪk|
[ad. Gr. ἀνθρωπικ-ός human, f. ἄνθρωπ-ος man, human being.]
a. Of or belonging to a human being; of a human sort. Also, concerned with or relating to human beings; in Geol. applied to the period of the deposits in which human remains are found.
1859Owen Classif. Mamm. App. B. 82 They impress that anthropic feature upon the face of the living gorilla. 1863Watts Dict. Chem. I. 310 This he at first supposed to be a peculiar acid (anthropic acid). 1884Harrison in 19th Cent. Mar. 505 The conclusion that the future of religion is to be, not only..anthropomorphic—but frankly anthropic. 1884Blackmore Sir Thomas Upmore xiii, My dear little anthropic nautilus, I can do nothing. 1893J. W. Dawson Salient Points 465 The age of which we have been writing the history, is that which has been fitly named the Anthropic.
b. anthropic principle: the principle that theories of the universe are constrained by the need to allow for man's existence in it as an observer.
1974B. Carter in Internat. Astron. Union Symposium No. 63 291 These predictions do require the use of what may be termed the anthropic principle to the effect that what we can expect to observe must be restricted by the conditions necessary for our presence as observers. 1981Sci. Amer. Dec. 114/2 Not all cosmologists and philosophers of science assent to the utility of the anthropic principle, or even to its legitimacy. 1984Nature 6 Dec. 525/1 In short, the anthropic principle seems to suggest that we should observe a universe of minimal order consistent with the existence of observers.
Add: Hence anˈthropically adv., from an anthropic point of view, for anthropic reasons.
1932Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Sept. 627/2 Dualism, while ‘anthropically’ necessary so far as the problem of ‘the One and the Many’ is concerned, is necessary in that field alone. 1933Jrnl. Theol. Stud. XXXIV. 94 We are reading into a deliverance of sense an anthropically derived and interpretative over-belief. 1979Nature 12 Apr. 612/1 It is unclear to what extent these coincidences can be interpreted anthropically. |
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