bootstrap paradox

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词形变化

bootstrap paradoxes 复数 bootstrap paradoxes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A time travel paradox in which the consequences of an event in the future travel back in time and cause an event in the past or present, which in turn is among the causes of the first event, forming a causal loop in which each event is caused by the other.

词源

Compare bootstrap, pull oneself up by one's bootstraps, etc.

来源：wiktionary