摘要
在不能观测致病因素及其如何与人体产生作用的古代,古人只能由"具身认知"及类比、隐喻的方法来认识疾病。而这种应用具身的隐喻、类比的手段不可避免的要带来奎因称之为"本体论承诺"的现象。现今科学技术特别是可视技术在医学中的应用,现代医者看到了古人看不到或不能及时看到的东西,如细菌、病毒、积癥;在看到后,尽管中医学家仍将病证成因称为风寒、风热或痰饮、瘀血,此时所言已和古人不同,它已经从单纯的本体论承诺渐渐转向了本体论事实。
In the ancient world, doctors could not see the pathogens of diseases and how pathogens affected the patients' bodies, so they knew disease through embodied cognition and the ways of analogy and metaphor, by which TCM theory was brought ineluctably to the phenomenon of ontological commitment named by Quine. Because scientific technology, particularly the visual technology, is applied to TCM today, modern TCM doctors can observe what the ancient doctors could not see such as bacteria, viruses, and internal masses. Consequently, although TCM doctors today still call the causes of diseases as wind-cold, wind-heat, phlegm-retained fluid or blood stasis, the meanings of these terms are different from those used by ancient doctors, changing gradually from pure ontological commitment to ontological truth.
出处
《中华中医药杂志》
CAS
CSCD
北大核心
2015年第11期3999-4001,共3页
China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy
基金
国家自然科学基金课题(No.81373770
No.81173464)~~
关键词
具身认知
隐喻认知
技术哲学
本体论
Embodied cognition
Metaphorical cognition
Philosophy of technology
Ontology