摘要
有限论是爱丁堡学派继强纲领之后推出的又一重要理论,核心主张是概念乃至信念的意义在未来的应用中是可以修改的。这种从社会学角度提出的有限论思想为解决归纳问题提供了一种新的出路,归纳问题根源于对真理或近似真理的追求,而按照有限论思想,所有科学信念都是不完全归纳的结果,都只是适用于有限对象的有限命题,随着新现象的发现,科学信念可以做出修改。这样,有限论就在保留归纳逻辑的同时消解了归纳问题。
Finitism is another important theory after strong program proposed by the Edinburgh School,claiming that the meaning of concepts and beliefs can be modified in the future application.Sociological finitism provides a new solution for the problem of induction.The problem of induction is rooted in pursuing truth or approximate truth.However,according to finitism,all the scientific beliefs are the results of incomplete induction and just limited proposition about limited objects,with the discovery of new phenomenon,scientific beliefs being modified.Therefore,finitism can solve the problem of induction at the same time saving the inductive logic.
出处
《科学技术与辩证法》
CSSCI
北大核心
2008年第2期32-35,80,共5页
Science Technology and Dialectics
