The Rationality of Scientific Discovery: The Aspect of the Theory of Creation :: Philosophical Science Scientific Papers

The Rationality of Scientific Discovery The Aspect of the Theory of Creation compend In order to understand the rationality of scientific creation, we must first clarify the following (1) the historical structure of scientific creation from starting stopover to breakthrough, and then to establishment (2) the process from the primary through the productive aspects of the scientific problem, the idea of creation, the primary conjecture, the scientific hypothesis, and finally the emergence of the genetic structure establishing the speculation and (3) the problem threshold of rationality in scientific creation. Given that the theory of scientific creation adopts the descriptive viewpoint of rationality, it therefore establishes rational principles such as the following (1) a superlogical mode of thinking (2) an analysable genetic structure which consists of the primary and productive aspects (including experiential facts, background theory, operational means, higher irrational factors , etc.) (3) a means of recourse to the effect of incubation of a higher idea (4) a movement in thinking from generality to particularity and (5) the replacement of irrational by rational factors. 1.The Logic Theory of Scientific Discovery and the Irrational Theory of Scientific DiscoveryThe modern forms of the logic theory of scientific breakthrough construct abandoned the discovery model of pure logic, and search after the discovery logic in a broad sense. Both the retrospective inference which Hanson initiated and the inducive which Maclauin elucidated deserve serious attention among them 1. Their popular charateristics are to resort to the irrational factors, at the same time, they are unable to expound the process of emergence of the hot ideas. In addition, the rationality of discovery is summed up into the algorithm or the patterns of discovery is still put forward, and it holds that it is according to the overeconomical principle that the discovery of the scientific laws d iscovers the patterns in set about and data 3. They are both the different expression of discovery logic, the former is a kind of logic of problem solving, the latter is actually an inductive inference. Their common shortcomings are the simplification and to be unable to reveal how the new ideas occur in the process of scientific creation.The irrational theory of discovery advocates the method of bisection of discovery and verification and holds that the scientific discovery is the intuitional result like poetry (Popper), and doesnt thoroughly have the possibility of epistemological research (L. Laudan) 4. The problems of scientific discovery should be studies by psychology and sociology.