部分理解几何学  

The Geometry of Partial Understanding

作　　者：科林.艾伦 王小红[1] 孙文奇 

机构地区：[1]西安交通大学人文社会科学学院,陕西西安710061 [2]北京大学哲学系,北京100871

出　　处：《西安交通大学学报（社会科学版）》2018年第1期82-91,共10页Journal of Xi'an Jiaotong University：Social Sciences

摘　　要：文章论证了语言学上的表达只是对于意义的部分近似,意义产生于复杂神经动力学及实际情境中。认知属于高维系统,而语言描述则处于低维,文章提出采用一种几何学类比模型来揭示后者对前者的抽象。几何投影和切面的概念也揭示出,语言学对于心理内容的抽象是可以客观地反映出复杂认知状态与其抽象之间的联系的,也是支持客观相似性的主张的。通过类比模型方式我们知道,即使我们在描述非人类动物心理状态时,与人类的认知在许多方面都不同,但可以以其他方式去近似,因此,心理状态归因对于科学目的而言是充分的。In this paper, it is argued that linguistic expressions only partially approximate the meanings that emerge from neural dynamics and pragmatic contexts. A geometric analogy is introduced to suggest the kinds of abstract relationships which may hold between high dimensional cognitive systems and their lower-dimensional linguistic descriptions. The notions of geometric projections and slices suggest how linguistic abstractions of mental content can be objectively linked to complex cognitive states, and may support objective similarity claims. Understood in this way, mental state attributions are adequate for scientific purposes, even when describing the cognitive states of nonhuman animals whose cognition is dissimilar from that of humans in many ways, but similar in other ways.

关 键 词：意义 实用主义 意图的解释 动物认知 语言 心理状态归因 认知动力学 

分 类 号：N02[自然科学总论—科学技术哲学]