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 CreationABSTRACT In order to understand the moderateness of scientific creation, we must first clarify the following (1) the historical structure of scientific creation from starting point to breakthrough, and then to establishment (2) the act upon from the main(a) through the productive aspects of the scientific problem, the idea of creation, the primary conjecture, the scientific hypothesis, and last the emergence of the genetic structure establishing the theory 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 doctrines such as the following (1) a superlogical systemal 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 fact ors, etc.) (3) a means of repair to the effect of incubation of a higher idea (4) a suit in thinking from generality to particularity and (5) the replacement of irrational by rational factors. 1.The Logic guess of Scientific Discovery and the Irrational Theory of Scientific DiscoveryThe modern forms of the logic theory of scientific stripping develop abandoned the discovery model of pure logic, and search after the discovery logic in a broad sense. Both the ex post facto inference which Hanson initiated and the inductive which Maclauin elucidated deserve serious attention among them 1. Their common charateristics argon to resort to the irrational factors, at the same time, they are unable to set forth the process of emergence of the new 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 disc overs the patterns in experience 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 diminution 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 validation 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.