亨普尔真理论研究

On the Theory of Truth of Carl G. Hempel

亨普尔运用在科学中用来证实一个命题程序的逻辑的和方法论的分析方法来试图建立真的标准,他的真理论是一种限制的融贯论,具有约定主义和社会历史学派或新实用主义倾向,他把真的定义看做是相对于“人类和尤其是由我们的文化圈的科学家所真正接受的系统”,并接受一个经验证实的相对概念,经验的或形式的科学不能引领我们达到绝对的独立于我们思想的真。

Carl G. Hempel tries to establish the criteria for truth through a logical and methodological analysis of the procedures which are employed to verify a proposition in science. His theory of truth is a retained coherence theory of truth, and it has a convention and pragmatic-sociological vein. He thinks that truth should be defined as “the system which actually has been adopted by people and especially by the scientists of our cultural circle”. Also, he embraces a relative concept of empirical verification: neither the empirical nor the formal sciences can lead us to a truth that is absolute, independent of our thought.