可能世界如何存在?

How Do the Possible Worlds Exist?

托马斯.库恩的世界存在论题影响深远,对其先后形成两种理解模式:传统终结论与传统延续论。反观和思考这一历史进程,深层解读库恩关于可能世界的构想(包括四种可能世界的存在与关联),尤其是范式世界中理论实体的存在方式,将使我们发现库恩在本体论上的重要学术贡献。本文将尝试性地提出如何区分和跨越词汇系统异隔的理论,试图对库恩后期理论加以改进和补救,进一步拓展库恩的理论实体存在论,为支持库恩的实在论立场提供论据。

Historically philosophers of science understand Thomas Kuhn's ideas of paradigm and worlds-being according to the following different models: Kuhn's ideas break with the preceding tradition, or keep some continuity with the past. This article will critically examine these viewpoints, and further discuss Kuhn's conception of possible worlds (including four kinds of existence of possible worlds and relationships between them), thus fully exhibit the significance of Kuhn's ontology. Finally, in order to show an improvement or remedy of Kuhn's lexical taxonomy and support Kuhn's realism, this article will put forward the theory of bridging across the lexical divide.