摘要
为把中国传统思想中的时空概念与现代科学中的时空概念进行有意义的比较研究,引入一些新的概念,即:"空白"和"积载"是很方便的。与通常是"空白"的现代概念相比,中国传统的概念被认为是"积载"的。时空概念演变的一般趋向是一"抽象"过程,而这一过程没有被看作是从"积载"向"空白"的演变。在中国历史的某一时期,其逆转化,即:从"空白"向"积载"的演变也似曾出现过。从《墨子》、《淮南子》到诸如邵雍、张载、周敦颐、朱熹这样的理学家们概念的变化过程中,我们就可以看到这种趋向。"积载"的特性与其它中国传统思想的特性紧密联系。
To perform a meaningful comparative study concerning the concepts of space and time in the traditional Chinese thought with those of modern science, it is convenient to introduce certain new notions, namely, the 'blankness' and 'loadedness' of the concept. The traditional Chinese concepts are identified to be 'loaded', in comparison with the modern concepts which are generally 'blank'. A general trend in the evolution of the space and time concepts is a process of 'abstraction'. This process is not, however, identified with a movement from 'loadedness' toward 'blankness'. In certain period of Chinese history, the reverse movement, namely that from 'blankness' toward 'loadeness', seems to appear. We see this trend during conceptal change from Mo Zi and Huainan Zi to the Neo-Confucianists, namely, Shao Yong, Zhang Zai, Zhou Dunyi and Zhu Xi. The characteristics of 'loadedness' is closely related with the other characteristics of traditional Chinese thought.
出处
《自然科学史研究》
CSCD
1993年第3期201-206,共6页
Studies in The History of Natural Sciences
