复杂性研究与简单性原则

Complexity Studies and Principles of Simplicity

复杂性研究兴起后,简单性原则能否具有普适性,成为一个有争议的主题。进一步分析简单性原则的四个层面内涵——方法论、世界观、美学和认识论,阐明复杂性研究兴起前后,简单性原则的前三层含义发生了改变,第四层——认识论简单性原则始终具有普适性,它始终是引导科学家走向真理的灯塔。

Is the simplicity principles universal？ It has become a disputable issue since the rising of complexity studies.We can divide simplicity principles into four dimensions,including methodology,world image,aesthetics and epistemology.By doing so,it is indicated that the rising of complexity studies has changed the former three meanings,only simplicity principles in epistemology remain universal,which have been always leading to the truth.