We seem to have come to one of Bacon's Prerogative Instances; an experimentum crucis on the nature of reasoning itself.
Brown has reversed the interpretation of Reid's experimentum crucis.
The impossibility of constructing extension out of our sensations is the experimentum crucis upon which Reid was ready to stake his case.
With an excitement pardonable under the circumstances, yet tempered with thankful humility, I now applied my last and severest trial, my experimentum crucis.
In all doubtful cases the experimentum crucis of puncture with the exploring-needle becomes a measure of necessity.
Those old Romans, too--why, they are the very experimentum crucis of suicide!
We are satisfied with our institutions, and are not willing to submit them to the "experimentum in vile corpus!
Well, possibly it will; but as we are very happy, comfortable and contented in slave society, suppose you try the "experimentum in vile corpus.
Except in physics, we can put nothing to the experimentum crucis, and must be content with conjecture and probability.
But then, you can never put anything to the experimentum crucis; and there were other causes at work for Adela's cure, which were perhaps more powerful than even the ague.
We seem to have come to one of Bacon’s Prerogative Instances; an experimentum crucis on the nature of reasoning itself.
We have it, for example, in a case of causation in which there has been an experimentum crucis.
Bacon would have well understood this; it is he who invented the phrase Experimentum crucis.
An 'experimentum crucis' has long been sought which would enable us to decide between these two theories, but it has not been found.
Fiat experimentum in corpore vili=--Let the experiment be made on some worthless body.
To supply here theexperimentum crucis, let us quote some contradictory instances.
In any science which admits of an unlimited range of arbitrary experiments, an experimentum crucis may always be obtained.
The consequence of this unavoidable defect in the materials of the induction is, that we can rarely obtain what Bacon has quaintly, but not unaptly, termed an experimentum crucis.
The behaviour of this comet may be regarded as an experimentum crucis as to the nature of tails.
Kirchhoff's experimentum crucis in the matter was a very simple one.
Moreover, Adams unaccountably neglected to answer until too late a question regarded by Airy in the light of anexperimentum crucis as to the soundness of the new theory.
I upbraided him, mildly, yet with earnestness, for that his imprudence had well-nigh undone all my cure, and avouched that it was high time to attempt the experimentum I had formerly suggested.
The trial of this remedy is attended with sundry notable perils and incommodities, wherefore it is not to be lightly undertaken, and I leave it for this present until we have made a proper experimentum of the more vulgar means.
When he was gone I asked Don Ygnacio whether there were not some private room where we might do our business, since it was not seemly that we should be at the gaze of so many goggling eyes while the experimentum was a-doing.
I therefore considered that the trial, whether the error of radius vector would be explained by the same theory which explained the error of longitude, would be truly an experimentum crucis.
Later, when he learnt of Le Verrier's researches, he put the same question to him, and received a polite but very clear answer, showing that the suggested test was not an experimentum crucis as he supposed.
Here we have the logical *experimentum crucis* of Darwinism.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "experimentum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
