When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth century.</P>
Language analysts believe that there are no genuine philosophical problems, or that the problems of philosophy, if any, are problems of linguistic usage, or of the meaning of words. I, however, believe that there is at least one philosophical problem in which all thinking men are interested. It is the problem of cosmology: the problem of understanding the world—including ourselves, and our knowledge, as part of the world. All science is cosmology, I believe, and for me the interest of philosophy, no less than of science, lies solely in the contributions which it has made to it. (查看原文)
Language analysts regard themselves as practitioners of a method peculiar to philosophy. I think they are wrong, for I believe in the following thesis.
Philosophers are as free as others to use any method in searching for truth. There is no method peculiar to philosophy.
A second thesis which I should like to propound here is this. The central problem of epistemology has always been and still is the problem of the growth of knowledge. And the growth of knowledge can be studied best by studying the growth of scientific knowledge.
I do not think that the study of the growth of knowledge can be replaced by the study of linguistic usages, or of language systems. (查看原文)
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任公先生在《清代学术概论》里总结有清一代朴学学风，曰：“孤证不为定说，其无反证者，姑存之，得有续证则渐信之，遇有力之反证，则弃之。”，今读波普尔之《科学发现的逻辑》，所言往往与先生同，是可以知人类知识之发展，无论中外，不患无洞然了澈之人。
0 有用 季平 2009-09-13 19:21:27
任公先生在《清代学术概论》里总结有清一代朴学学风，曰：“孤证不为定说，其无反证者，姑存之，得有续证则渐信之，遇有力之反证，则弃之。”，今读波普尔之《科学发现的逻辑》，所言往往与先生同，是可以知人类知识之发展，无论中外，不患无洞然了澈之人。