论实验在科学理论进步中的作用

On the role of experiment in the progress of scientific theory

实验在科学理论的进步中发挥着重要的作用。协调论从经验、概念和背景三个方面对理论的进步模式进行考察,为对思想实验与物质实验的比较提供了一个新颖的视角。物质实验通过观测型经验数据的获得,直接影响着理论的经验协调力的上升或下降,同时作为理论背景协调考察的主要因素之一,它也可以影响理论的背景协调力。思想实验由于其只是思维运作的结果,无法形成观测型经验问子,但它可以通过梳理、纠正、澄清理论中混乱的状况,使理论的概念协调力得到提升,同时它也可以对理论的背景协调力的上升或下降产生影响。

Experiment is vital to the progress of scientific theories.Coordination examines the modes of the theoretical progress from the three aspects of experience,concept and background,which provides a novel perspective for the comparison between thought experiments and physical experiments.Physical experiment generates observed empirical data and thus affects the degree of the coordination force.As one of the major factors in the background coordination,it also affects the force of the theoretical background coordination.As the result of the operation of thinking,thought experiment,on the other hand,doesn't produce observed empirical data;however,it can sort out,correct and clarify the problems in theories,enhance the power of the concept coordination and cause the increase or decrease in the coordination force of theoretical background.