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Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
机上論 • (kijōron)
- armchair theory; speculative argument; an idea with no practical importance
- Synonyms: 空論 (kūron), 机上の空論 (kijō no kūron), 理想論 (risōron), 空理空論 (kūri kūron), 畳の上の水練 (tatami no ue no suiren)
1937, Ishizaka Kitsuju, Nōseigaku yōron [Theory of agricultural management], page 255:
- リービッヒの最少養分率は概念的所産であり机上論である。之は發展させて、自己矛盾によるそれ自身を揚乗せしめねばならない?
- Rībihhi no saishō yōbun ritsu wa gainenteki shosan de ari kijōron de aru. Kore wa hatten sasete, jiko mujun ni yoru sore jishin o yō nose shime nebanaranai?
- Liebig's law of the minimum as a general conception is mere speculation. Must we attempt to advance a theory filled with such self-contradiction?
1989, Tahara Sōichirō, Yawaraka na kigyō e no henkaku [Toward the transformation of ineffective enterprises], page 69:
- いわゆる机上論ですよ。いつまでも果てしない。そこで私は“そんな机上論はもうやめにしよう”と提案にしたのです。
- Iwayuru kijōron desu yo. Itsu made mo hateshinai. Soko de watashi wa “sonna kijōron wa mō yamenishiyō” to teian ni shita no desu.
- That is what is called an academic argument. It will never reach a conclusion. To that I have suggested, “Let’s stop such idle speculation.”
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