Editing Experimentum crucis (section)

=== Theory of Experimentum Crucis ===

There's an emerging scholarship extending understanding and evaluation of experiments that fit into this category. [[J. A. Lohne]] tracks the development of the idea from [[Francis Bacon]]'s 1620 Instantie Crucis through the various [[Prism (optics)|prism]] [[optics]] experiments and discussions of 1722.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lohne |first=J. A. |date=1968 |title=Experimentum Crucis |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/530985 |journal=Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=169–199 |issn=0035-9149}}</ref> 

An early indicator of a theory of Experimentum Crucis appears in [[John Locke]]'s [[Doctrine of Abstraction]].<ref>
 {{Cite journal |last=Reese |first=William L. |date=1961 |title=The "Experimentum Crucis" In Locke's Doctrine of Abstraction |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2105018 |journal=Philosophy and Phenomenological Research |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=490–500 |doi=10.2307/2105018 |issn=0031-8205|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Lorne Falkenstein, reviewing  Van Cleve expands the discussion  of Experimentum crucis to the more general philosophical realm of [[Property dualism]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Falkenstein |first=Lorne |date=2016 |editor-last=Van Cleve |editor-first=James |title=Dualism And The Experimentum Crucis |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48579468 |journal=Philosophy and Phenomenological Research |volume=93 |issue=1 |pages=212–217 |doi=10.2307/48579468 |issn=0031-8205}} </ref>