论文标题
物理理论是不可判断的吗?
Are Physical Theories Incommensurable?
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论文摘要
本文探讨了不可通信的论文 - 从库恩和菲耶本德同时工作中得出的最重要和有争议的思想之一。在上半年,我讨论了不可通信性的三个方面 - 方法论上的不可通信性(每个范式都提供了不同的评估标准),观察性不可约合的性能(我们接受的理论的观点改变了我们所见世界的方式),最后,语义不可通信的性能(声称这是范式变化,也会改变中央术语,这是一种均等的术语。在后半部分,我主要考虑了所谓的统一物理立方体,从而解决了物理学家对不可通信性的一般论点。我表明,物理立方并没有摆脱不可通信的性能,而是有利于它。
This paper examines the incommensurability thesis - one of the most important and controversial ideas to emerge from the simultaneous work of Kuhn and Feyerabend. In the first half, I discuss three aspects of incommensurability - methodological incommensurability (the view that each paradigm supplies different standards of evaluation), observational incommensurability (the view that the theories we accept alter how we see the world), and finally, semantic incommensurability (which claims that as paradigms change, the very meanings of central theoretical terms also change). In the latter half, I tackle the general arguments of physicists against incommensurability by primarily considering the so called unifying cube of physics. I show that the cube of physics does not get rid of incommensurability, but rather favours it.