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Meaning of phoronomy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A Kantian philosophical theory of motion; kinematics; dynamics.

uncountable

Examples

“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).”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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