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Behe’s Irreducible complexity went to court, II -- 唐好色 - (3016 Byte) 2007-3-01 周四, 上午12:24 (544 reads) |
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作者：秃公 在 寒山小径 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
在中文网，可以看到这些：“不可约减的复杂性”，“不可降低之复杂性”，“不
能约化的复杂性”和“不可简约的复杂性”。
irreducible 在牛津字典是：
That cannot be reduced.
1. That cannot be brought to a desired form, state, condition, etc. Const.
{dag}into, to.
1633 PRYNNE Histriom. I. II. 41 They are irreducible, vnconuertible to any
lawfull, good, or Christian purposes. 1669 W. SIMPSON Hydrol. Chym. 166
Irreducible to their pristine metalline form. 1818 HALLAM Mid. Ages (1878)
III. ix. II. 346 The fashions of dress and amusements are generally capricious
and irreducible to rule. 1881 MAXWELL Electr. & Magn. I. 355 When chemical
affinity was regarded as a quality sui generis, and irreducible to numerical
measurement.
b. spec. That cannot be reduced to a simpler or more intelligible form;
incapable of being resolved into elements, or of being brought under any
recognized law or principle.
1835 POE Adv. Hans Pfaall Wks. 1864 I. 8 A constituent of azote, so long
considered irreducible. 1841 MYERS Cath. Th. IV. □5. 259 The great primary
Fact..irreducible and unintelligible by any faculty of ours. 1868 LOCKYER
Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 3) 396 Each new triumph of optical skill results
in a resolution of some nebul□ before irreducible. 1871 R. H. HUTTON Ess.
(1877) I. 42 To admit the..irreducible nature of mental phenomena{em}to
admit that they cannot anyhow be analysed into physical.
c. Algebra. (See quots.)
1753 CHAMBERS Cycl. Supp., Irreducible case,..that case of cubic equations
where the root, according to Cardan's rule, appears under an impossible
or imaginary form, and yet is real. 1778 MASERES in Phil. Trans. LXVIII.
920 The remaining case of the cubick equation..which..cannot be resolved
by the rules above mentioned, has..obtained amongst algebraists the name
of the irreducible case: at least it is often called by the French writers
of algebra le cas irr□uctible. 1838-9 HALLAM Hist. Lit. II. viii. □. 325
Bombelli saw better than Cardan the nature of what is called the irreducible
case in cubic equations.
2. Path. That cannot be reduced by treatment to a desired form or condition.
1836-9 TODD Cycl. Anat. II. 740/1 Old ruptures that have become irreducible.
1859 Ibid. V. 684/1 An irreducible tumour in the right groin.
3. Incapable of being reduced to a smaller number or amount; the fewest
or smallest possible.
1860 FARRAR Orig. Lang. x. 205 The three families of language are irreducible,
i.e. incapable of being derived from one another. 188. American XIV. 134
(Cent.) What is it that we must hold fast as the irreducible minimum of
churchmanship?
4. That cannot be reduced to submission; invincible, insuperable.
1858 National Rev. Oct. 500 Allowing the irreducible, uncontrollable nature
of the prophetic impulse. 1859 MASSON Brit. Novelists 100 At last, foiled
by her irreducible virtue, he is compelled to call in the clergyman. 1885
WINGFIELD Barbara Philpot II. vi. 193 So 'twas irreducible dislike of his
person that had caused the uproar.
Hence irre{sm}ducibleness; irre{sm}ducibly adv.
1828 WEBSTER, Irreducibleness. 1841-4 EMERSON Ess., Experience Wks. (Bohn)
I. 183 The ancients, struck with this irreducibleness of the elements of
human life to calculation, exalted Chance into a divinity. 1847 CRAIG, Irreducibly.
1923 C. D. BROAD Sci. Thought x. 368 The temporal relations..are really
irreducibly triadic.
http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50121334?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=irreducible&
first=1&max_to_show=10
因此，“约减”看来是从“can not be reduced"翻译过来的。再来看看牛津
的第一个解释：
1. That cannot be brought to a desired form, state, condition, etc
还有WIKI 对“ Irreducibility”的定义：
Irreducibility, in philosophy, has the sense that a complete account of
an entity will not be possible at lower levels of explanation and which
has novel properties beyond prediction and explanation.
因此秃公想“irreducible complexity”最好翻译成“无解的复杂性”或干脆说
“上帝才知道的复杂性”才好懂些。
作者：秃公 在 寒山小径 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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