thinking machinen.

Brit.

/ˈθɪŋkɪŋ məˌʃiːn/, U.S.

/ˈθɪŋkɪŋ məˌʃin/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: thinking adj., thinking n., machine n.

Etymology: < either thinking adj. or thinking n. + machine n.

1. A person regarded as a machine with intellectual powers; a person whose thinking consists (merely) in mechanical response to symbols. Also: a person's head, brain, or intellect.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > thought > absence of thought > [noun] > manner indicating > mechanical thinker

thinking machine1678

1678 T. Tenison Of Idolatry Index sig. Iii^v Socinians make Christ a kind of thinking Machine.

1739 E. Carter tr. J. P. de Crousaz Exam. Mr Pope's Ess. Man 23 It would then be absolutely necessary that every one of these corporeal Machines should be accompanied with a Thinking Machine, infallibly determined to an Order of Ideas.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley (1859) xxxv. 535 The head which owns this bounteous fall of hazel curls is an excellent little thinking machine, most accurate in its working.

1857 Cultivator Feb. 42/2 Every young farmer should begin life with good habits. Not merely good habits of physical industry, but with a constant use of his thinking machine.

1869 Jrnl. Anthropol. Soc. 7 p. cxcix Where the constitution is sound, man is a powerful thinking machine, free to study daily, all the year round, during a long lifetime.

1943 H. Read Politics of Unpolitical iii. 46 We teach them [sc. children]..to master abstract symbols and the processes of conceptual thought, and by the age of eleven or twelve we have produced a thinking-machine of sorts.

1966 J. Allen tr. R. Mengin No Laurels for de Gaulle (1971) 381 That amazing intellect of hers..was certainly, as a thinking machine, the..best oiled, the most rapid I have ever encountered.

1999 A. Reisinger tr. E. Klein & M. Lachièze-Rey Quest for Unity v. 103 Man sometimes pretends to be matter, nothing but matter, a thinking machine, a gelatin with desires.

2. A machine able to simulate thought; (colloquial) a computer. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > computing and information technology > hardware > computer > [noun] > electronic

brain1934

thinking machine1950

1900 Philos. Rev. 9 124 A machine that thinks and chooses and acts is not a mere machine, but a thinking machine.

1921 E. G. Lowry Washington Close-ups 236 He made the State University the thinking machine of the State in his reforms.

1950 Mind 59 436 The present interest in ‘thinking machines’ has been aroused by a particular kind of machine, usually called an ‘electronic computer’ or ‘digital computer’.

1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Dec. vi. 48/1 One fundamental change that thinking machines will make will be to process information in a manner totally different from the way it is done now.

1987 N. Campion Pract. Astrologer (1993) ii. 17/1 In the modern world thinking machines—computers—are a Mercurial development.

2002 R. Harré Cognitive Sci. vi. 113 If we could never tell whether we were interacting via a keyboard and a screen with a thinking machine or with a person, then we would be obliged to concede that the machine could think.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	thinking machine
释义	thinking machinen. Brit. /ˈθɪŋkɪŋ məˌʃiːn/, U.S. /ˈθɪŋkɪŋ məˌʃin/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: thinking adj., thinking n., machine n. Etymology: < either thinking adj. or thinking n. + machine n. 1. A person regarded as a machine with intellectual powers; a person whose thinking consists (merely) in mechanical response to symbols. Also: a person's head, brain, or intellect. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > absence of thought > [noun] > manner indicating > mechanical thinker thinking machine1678 1678 T. Tenison Of Idolatry Index sig. Iii^v Socinians make Christ a kind of thinking Machine. 1739 E. Carter tr. J. P. de Crousaz Exam. Mr Pope's Ess. Man 23 It would then be absolutely necessary that every one of these corporeal Machines should be accompanied with a Thinking Machine, infallibly determined to an Order of Ideas. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley (1859) xxxv. 535 The head which owns this bounteous fall of hazel curls is an excellent little thinking machine, most accurate in its working. 1857 Cultivator Feb. 42/2 Every young farmer should begin life with good habits. Not merely good habits of physical industry, but with a constant use of his thinking machine. 1869 Jrnl. Anthropol. Soc. 7 p. cxcix Where the constitution is sound, man is a powerful thinking machine, free to study daily, all the year round, during a long lifetime. 1943 H. Read Politics of Unpolitical iii. 46 We teach them [sc. children]..to master abstract symbols and the processes of conceptual thought, and by the age of eleven or twelve we have produced a thinking-machine of sorts. 1966 J. Allen tr. R. Mengin No Laurels for de Gaulle (1971) 381 That amazing intellect of hers..was certainly, as a thinking machine, the..best oiled, the most rapid I have ever encountered. 1999 A. Reisinger tr. E. Klein & M. Lachièze-Rey Quest for Unity v. 103 Man sometimes pretends to be matter, nothing but matter, a thinking machine, a gelatin with desires. 2. A machine able to simulate thought; (colloquial) a computer. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > computer > [noun] > electronic brain1934 thinking machine1950 1900 Philos. Rev. 9 124 A machine that thinks and chooses and acts is not a mere machine, but a thinking machine. 1921 E. G. Lowry Washington Close-ups 236 He made the State University the thinking machine of the State in his reforms. 1950 Mind 59 436 The present interest in ‘thinking machines’ has been aroused by a particular kind of machine, usually called an ‘electronic computer’ or ‘digital computer’. 1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Dec. vi. 48/1 One fundamental change that thinking machines will make will be to process information in a manner totally different from the way it is done now. 1987 N. Campion Pract. Astrologer (1993) ii. 17/1 In the modern world thinking machines—computers—are a Mercurial development. 2002 R. Harré Cognitive Sci. vi. 113 If we could never tell whether we were interacting via a keyboard and a screen with a thinking machine or with a person, then we would be obliged to concede that the machine could think. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1678
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