| 单词 | simplicity criterion |
| 释义 | > as lemmassimplicity criterion attributive. Designating or relating to a means of evaluating a theory or description (esp. one relating to grammar or linguistics) which uses economy or lack of complexity as a criterion, as simplicity criterion, simplicity metric, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > schools or theories of grammar > [noun] > criterion for evaluating simplicity criterion1922 simplicity metric1922 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > schools or theories of grammar > [adjective] > criterion for evaluating simplicity1922 1922 Nature 23 Mar. 381/1 The simplicity criterion arranges the various possibilities in serial order. If the first of this set afterwards proves unsuitable, the next one is taken, and so on. 1953 F. J. Whitfield tr. L. Hjelmslev Prolegomena to Theory of Lang. 11 If..linguistic theory ends by constructing several possible methods of procedure.., that one shall be chosen that results in the simplest possible description... This principle, which is deduced from our so-called empirical principle, we call the simplicity principle. 1977 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 22 2 Such constraints..entail a fundamental reassessment of current formulations of the simplicity metric. 2014 Erkenntnis 79 1256 We cannot compare the Copernican theory..with, say, the phlogiston theory of combustion, or Cartesian mind–body dualism or scholastic physics... There is no comparing it with them, by this simplicity criterion, because they do not say that anything revolves in circles. < as lemmas |
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