Italian term
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messa in crisi
Here's the original Italian context (an introduction to a philosophical atlas on the concept of time, a summary of Twentieth-century philosophers' thoughts on time) (the phrase occurs twice in two successive sentences):
"Principe lascia intravedere come la via del pensiero della complessità e dei sistemi dissipativi sia stata aperta proprio da quella iniziale ***messa in crisi*** della fisica/metafisica classica. Quella relativizzazione dei sistemi di riferimento e ***messa in crisi*** del concetto di invarianza fu l’incipit della fisica quantistica e della teoria della complessità."
My attempts:
"Principe allows one to glimpse how the line of thinking regarding complexity and dissipative systems was opened precisely by that initial putting into crisis of classical physics/metaphsyics. That relativization of the systems of reference and the putting into crisis of the concept of invariance was the beginning of quantum physics and of the complexity theory."
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Peter
| 4 +1 | to upend or to dispute |
NinaBullard
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| 5 | crisis faced by |
James (Jim) Davis
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| 4 | challenge to/challenging of/ |
contesei
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Non-PRO (1): James (Jim) Davis
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Proposed translations
United States
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Native in: English (Variant: US) , Italian
Works in: Italian to English, English to Italian
to upend or to dispute
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Rosanna Palermo
: dispute/questioning in the sense of starting to doubt
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challenge to/challenging of/
Seychelles
25 years experience constantly improving
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Italian to English
crisis faced by
Each context needs a different approach. Sometimes an italian "crisi" is only really a little difficulty, but Newton's physics was facing big problems.
stata aperta proprio da quella iniziale ***messa in crisi*** della fisica/metafisica classica. Quella relativizzazione dei sistemi di riferimento e ***messa in crisi*** del concetto di invarianza fu l’incipit della fisica quantistica e della teoria della complessità."
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