试析社会科学中的规律观

Tentatively Analyze the View of Laws in Social Science

本文试图为社会科学中存在规律的可能性作一辩护,通过分析反驳社会科学中存在规律的理由,得出结论:按当代科学哲学的新规律观,社会科学中存在的规律本质上与自然科学规律没有不同,并且与社会科学中的规则无法严格区分,因此我建议将规律与规则看作处在同一连续统中,规则处在规律保护带的边缘,社会科学的目标是逐渐地尽可能地改善和精确化那些不同范围内的规则,使之成为在该范围内更具解释力的规律。

This paper aims to defend the possibility of the existence of laws in social science by analyzing the reasons against this possibility. The conclusion is that, according to the contemporary view of laws, laws in social science don't differ from laws in natural science, even can't be explicitly distinguished from rules in social science. So I suggest that laws and rules in social science are in the same continuum, rules is at the edge of the bracer of laws and one aim of social science is to gradually amend those rules in different scopes to laws with more explanation force.