نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
موسسه آموزشی و پژوهشی امام خمینی (ره)
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
The issue of determining the relationship between theory and observation, known as "theory-ladenness" of observations, is one of the problems that philosophers of science have attempted to address based on their epistemological and ontological foundations. In this essay, after elucidating the viewpoints of proponents and opponents of the theory ladenness of “observations" and "observational statements”, an effort has been made to discern, with epistemological precision, the various aspects of this issue in terms of different types of knowledge that acquired when confronting sensory reality, and based on this, the arguments of both proponents and opponents are evaluated. The results of this evaluation indicates that the answer to this issue will differ concerning ideas and affirmations. All kinds of ideas abstracted from sensory objects are theory-neutral. However, we should discriminate between affirmations. Because affirmations representing mental ideas are theory-neutral, and all other kinds of affirmations made with observational ideas are theory-laden.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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