思维的本质与定义新论

The Nature and Definition of Thinking

古希腊哲学家巴门尼德强调"理性"价值,开启以"思维研究思维"的道路。但"如何定义思维"的问题迄今尚未得到很好的解决。从已有定义看,研究者对思维对象、方式和结果的认识并不一致,各有部分的合理性。如果将思维看作是一种内部操作,操作的对象是"心理表征"、操作的结果是发现或建构"关系",那么思维就是通过建构心理表征单元间的关联性而实现的对客观事物之间联系的反映。

Parmenides,a philosopher of ancient Greece,emphasizes the value of＂logos＂and opens the way of investigating thinking by thinking.However,the question of how to define thinking has not been well solved.We compare those definitions in literature and do not think that researchers are in accord with the objects,methods and results of thinking,their different opinions have partial rationality.If we see thinking as an internal operation,mental representation as the operating object,finding and constructing relationship as the results of operation,then thinking is a reflection of the relationships between impersonal things,realized by constructing the relationship between mental representation units.