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1、凯程考研集训营,为学生引路,为学员服务!2017考研英语阅读暑期训练:哲学类(8)2017考研英语阅读暑期训练:哲学类(8) Partofthescientificfaithofthelatenineteenthcenturywastheviewthattherewasoneandonlyonescientificmethod.Thismethod,arguedwriterslikeKarlPearsoninhisGrammarofScience,wastheonlysuremethodfora
2、rrivingatknowledgeinanysphere.Themethodwaseasilydescribed:collectthefactsintheareaunderstudy;orderthemintosequences,suchthatlawlikeoccurrencescouldbeseen;then,writedownthelawssoidentified.Accordingtothisview,disciplinesdifferedonlyastosubjectmatter,si
3、ncetheunityofscienceconsistedofitsmethodalone.Also,accordingtothisview,theresultsofscientificinvestigation(thatis,newknowledge)willalwaysbeembodiedintheformofalawconnectingthefactsintheareaunderstudy. Explanation,accordingtothisview,issimplyaccountin
4、gforfactsonthebasisofadeductionfromaknownlaworlaws,oraccountingforsomesubordinatelawonthebasisofadeductionfromsomemoregenerallaworlaws.ThemostinfluentialformulationofthisexplanationisCarlGHempel‘s,perhapsmostaccessiblyarticulatedinhisarticle“Explanati
5、oninScienceandHistory”。Sometimes,accordingtoHempel,suchlawsareofastrictlyuniversalformandothertimestheyareofaprobabilisticorstatisticalform.Theyareassertions,inthislattercase,ofthekindthatifcertainspecifiedconditionsarerealizedthenanoccurrenceofsuchan
6、dsuchakindwillcomeaboutwithsuchaprobability. Ithinkthatitwouldbetruetosaythatinthelatenineteenthcenturyitwasfeltthatonefeaturedistinguishingphysicsfromhistoryasadisciplinewasthat,eveniftheysharedexactlythesamemethod,physicshadnoneedforthelatterkindof
7、probabilisticexplanation——atleastinprinciple——whileinhistoryitwasunavoidable. However,inthetwentiethcentury,whateverelsemaydistinguishphysicsandhistoryasdisciplinesitisnotthatphysicsusesonlystrictlyuniversallawsanddeductiveexplanationsinthenineteenth
8、centurysense,whilehistorydoesnot.Thephysicsofthecentury,from1900onward,hasbeeninterestedinaggregatesofcertainclassesofphysicalindividuals(theparticles)andinaccountsoftheindividualsthatwouldenableonetounderstandtheaggregates.Asaconsequencepartl
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