【作者】 王琦；

【Author】 WANG Qi (The School of Philosophy and Sociology,Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875,China)

【机构】 北京师范大学哲学与社会学学院；

【摘要】 通常我们使用"盲人摸象"这个成语的时候,是把它当成贬义来使用的。但事实真的是这样吗?本文试图从知识论的角度为"盲人摸象"进行辩解。首先从哲学和认知心理学角度考察知识的定义,然后应用科学哲学家卡尔·波普尔的知识观对盲人摸象的过程进行分析,得出结论:盲人通过摸象所获得的关于大象的形象的结论就是一种知识。在现实世界里,每个人都是一个"盲人",人类对科学知识的探索正如盲人摸象一样,需要猜测。"盲人摸象"正是一种发现科学理论的正确方法。更多还原

【Abstract】 We usually use the story"The Blind Men and the Elephant"as a derogatory sense.But is this the real fact? This article defends this story by using the perspective of the theory of knowledge.First,it defends the story by using the definition of knowledge in the view of philosophy and cognitive psychology,and then this article uses Karl Popper’s statement on human knowledge to analyse the process that the blind men touch the elephant.It comes to the conclusion,that is,what the elephant is like,which the blind men conclude by touching the elephant,is a kind of knowledge.In the real world,everyone is a"blind".The quest of scientific knowledge is just like the process that the blind men touch the elephant,and in this process,we need a guess.The story"The Blind Men and the Elephant"is a correct method to dislover the scientific theory.更多还原