一场去物质化的圣战

A Dematerialized Jihad

马里奥·邦格以数学上的测度论和物理学中马赫的思维经济论为切入点,指出了20世纪理论科学被唯心论和相对主义逐渐侵占的过程。邦格坚持严格的唯物主义立场,对这些诉诸参考系和概念依存的观点加以斥责,认为把所有科学概念都看成是理论建构的观念,导致了波普尔所说的科学的形而上学化。此外,他还谈到了相对论和日益发展的信息技术对这一思潮的影响。作者的结论是经验科学应该维护自身的纯洁性,成为一种描述客观实在及其现象的语言体系,而不是修辞的空中楼阁。

Mario Bunge points out,from the perspectives of mathematical Measurement Theory and Mach's Thinking Economy Theory in physics,that the process of theoretical science has been gradually encroached by idealism and relativism in the 20th century.Bunge adheres to his strict materialism position,criticizes these views resorting to the reference system and concept dependence,and argues that the belief that all scientific concepts are regarded as the concept of theoretical construction has led to the science metaphysics cited by Popper.In addition,he has also summarized the influence of both relativity and growing information technology on this trend of thought.The author concludes that empirical science should maintain its purity and become a language system for describing objective reality and its phenomena,rather than a rhetoric castle in the air.