感觉器官的构造与认识能力的界限——恩格斯《自然辩证法》中的一个重要问题

The Structure of Human Sense Organs and the Limit to Cognitive Ability——An Important Problem in Engels' Dialectics of Nature

在系统进化和个体发育过程中,人的感觉器官形成了特定的构造。这种特定的构造既确保了人的认识能力,又在一定程度上限制了人的认识能力,但这种限制并不构成人的认识能力的最终的绝对界限。由于主体内信息的存在、客体外信息的转化、知觉和表象、理性认识、人造感官以及认识继承性,人类已在许多方面弥补了感官的不完备,从而大大增强了自身的认识能力。

Human .sense organs have formed specific structures during the process of systematic evolntion and individual development. The structures guarantee human cognitive ability, and at the same time restrict it to a certain extent as well, but they are not the absolute limit. Man have remedied the defects of sense organs and enhanced the cognitive ability greatly in various ways because of the existance of the internal information of subjects, the transformation of the external information of objects, consciousness and idea, rational knowledge, artifical sense organs and the succession of cogition.