FORCE    力量

TENDENCY TO MOVE OR CHANGE something.
Old Chinese Criteria
THE ORIGINS OF NOTIONS OF FORCE IN CHINESE PHYSICS NEED TO BE STUDIED CLOSELY, AND THIS IS A MAJOR PROJECT AT THE MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN BERLIN.
Hyponym
  • COSMIC FORCEnew-99786a3a-223a-4900-b86a-3a223ad900e8　FORCE, PRINCIPLE, OR ELEMENT which CONTROLS PERCEIVED PHENOMENA in the WORLD. (anc: 6/0, child: 0)
  • FATE　SUPERNATURAL FORCE which FIXES CONTINGENT EVENTS. (anc: 6/0, child: 1)
  • WEIGHT　DEGREE of FORCE by which a THING is being NATURALLY PULLED TOWARDS the EARTH. (anc: 6/0, child: 2)
  • MASS　FORCE that KEEPS THINGS IN their PRESENT MOVEMENT OR POSITION. (anc: 6/0, child: 0)
See also
  • ENERGYABSTRACT SUBSTANCE which CONTAINS a FORCE.
  • CONTROLINTERACT so as to CAUSE TO BE OR ACT RESEMBLE:as one DESIRES.
Hypernym
  • TENDENCY　FEATURE CAUSING a HUMAN, ANIMAL OR THING to ACT in a DEFINED way IN-SO-FAR-AS it is NOT PREVENTED by MORE STRONG CAUSES than this FEATURE. (anc: 4/0, child: 6)
  • FEATURE　ABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE. (anc: 3/0, child: 19)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
  • Concepts of Force ( JAMMER 1999) p.

  • Woerterbuch der Philosophie. Neue Beitraege zu einer Kritik der Sprache ( MAUTHNER WP 1924) p. II.238

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 2.1093

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 4.1177

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  • Keywords. A Vocabulary of Culture and Society ( WILLIAMS 1976) p.

    • Words (1 items)

    迫蹴  pò cù OC: praaɡ tshuɡ MC: pɣɛk tshuk 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPabactforceful insistence