phoronomyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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phoronomy (uncountable)

1. A Kantian philosophical theory of motion; kinematics; dynamics.
   • 1859, Arthur Schopenhauer, “II.24”, in Judith Norman, transl., The World as Will and Representation, 3rd edition:

     aetiology has [...] tried to reduce the whole of organic life to chemistry or electricity, and then the whole of chemistry (i.e. quality) to mechanism (action through the shape of atoms), and then finally mechanism to the object of phoronomy (i.e. time and space united for the possibility of motion), or alternatively to the object of mere geometry (i.e. position in space).