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单词 heuretic
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heureticadj.n.

Brit. /hjʊəˈrɛtɪk/, U.S. /hjʊˈrɛdɪk/
Forms: 1600s euretick, 1700s– heuretic, 1900s– euretic.
Origin: Partly a borrowing from Latin. Perhaps also a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin heureticus; Greek εὑρετικός; Latin heuretice.
Etymology: As adjective < (i) post-classical Latin heureticus inventive (1636 or earlier), or its etymon (ii) ancient Greek εὑρετικός (see below). As noun < post-classical Latin heuretice art of invention (1700, in a work by the German Lutheran theologian V. E. Löscher, or earlier) < ancient Greek εὑρετική , feminine of εὑρετικός inventive, ingenious, in Hellenistic Greek also concerned with inquiry or discovery < εὑρετός discoverable ( < the stem of εὑρίσκειν to find (see Eureka int.) + -τός , suffix forming verbal adjectives) + -ικός -ic suffix.With the use as adjective compare German heuretisch (1816 or earlier; the usual German term is heuristisch heuristic adj.). With the use as noun, compare post-classical Latin heuretica , feminine noun (apparently 1612 or earlier (see quot. 1612), although securely attested only from 1622 in an appeal by the German mathematician, scientist, and philosopher J. Jungius for the foundation of a learned society, which became known as Societas Ereunetica sive Zetetica ). Compare also French heurétique , noun (1703 or earlier), German Heuretik (1816 or earlier). Compare earlier heuristic n. The following appears to show an isolated occurrence of post-classical Latin heuretica (feminine noun) in an English context:1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica iii. 48 Heuretica is the Art of Inuentions, teaching how to find out new, and to iudge of the old.
A. adj.
Of or relating to discovery or invention.In later use frequently with reference to the works of the philosopher C. S. Peirce or the critical theorist G. L. Ulmer.
ΚΠ
1678 R. Burthogge Organum Vetus & Novum 70 Ratiocination Speculative, is either Euretick or Hermeneutick, Inventive or Interpretative.
1876 Owens College, Manch.: Cal. 1876–7 App. p. ccxxxix Distinguish between the heuretic, critical, interpretatory, and artistic functions of the historian.
1905 C. S. Peirce in Monist 15 491 The Critical Common-sensist holds that there is less danger to heuretic science in believing too little than in believing too much.
1929 C. J. Ducasse Philos. Art viii. 120 Heuretic art is the conscious objectification of will, and is so designated because that is what invention essentially consists in.
1964 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 68 408 For Plato..it is only ‘heuretic’ craft that achieves novelty.
1991 G. L. Ulmer in Jrnl. Archit. Educ. 45 8/1 A new writing could be invented by substituting a euretic code for the code of truth.
2009 S. Morey in S. I. Dobrin & S. Morey Ecosee i. 30 Ecosee asks not only what images ‘say’ but also how they are made (i.e., the heuretic question).
B. n.
The study or art of discovery and invention. rare.
ΚΠ
1794 I. Disraeli Curiosities of Lit. (ed. 4) II. 54 The Art of Invention, or, as he [sc. V. E. Löscher] terms it, The Heuretic.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. App. 230 That which treats of those conditions of knowledge which lie in the nature, not of thought itself, but of that which we think about..has been called Heuretic, in so far as it expounds the rules of Invention or Discovery.
1945 G. Polya How to solve It (2004) 112 Heuretic, or ‘ars inveniendi’ was the name of a certain branch of study, not very clearly circumscribed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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