地质学中若干哲学问题

A Number of philosophical Problems in Geology

本文从哲学角度利用丰富的实际资料对地质学中表现出的五个方面矛盾进行了详细叙述:一、连续性与间断性,地球历史是一个连续向前发展过程,而发展历史又县有间断性。二、渐变、突变与灾变,对近几年地层学、古生物学中新理论、新观点从哲学方面提出了一些看法。三、穿时与等时:首次提出了穿时与等时的矛盾。四、可逆性与不可逆性:地质发展过程是不可逆的,可逆只是一种科学抽象的假定。五、精确性与模糊性:地质学即有精确性一面,又有模糊性一面。

Geology is related to philosophy thinking in many domains. This article, illustrated with abundant practical material, gave a minute account of such couples of contradictions as between interruptednature and uninterrupted nature, catastrophe and gradualism, diachronism and isochronal reversibility and rreversibility, accuracy and fuzziness.On Different Roles, of Operaticnal