形式本性及其与西方思想的本源关联探析

形式自始便与数学、物理学、逻辑学、形而上学有关,具有歧义丛生、一语多名的特点,故而形式的本质属性不是单一不变的,也无法用属加种差的方法给形式下一个内涵、外延确切的规范、严整的定义。形式的本性源于逻辑,逻辑具有纯形式特征,逻辑学追求可理解性的最普遍法则,达成的真理是关于理性世界的形式真理。形式、理性、逻辑、数学不仅仅是思维工具、科学方法,更在形而上学和认识论上支撑、规约着西方思想的重要概念、命题、课题、特性。由于形式范畴具有复杂性、含混性、流动性的品格,它的恰切定性应当为既是元范畴又不是元范畴。形式是型塑、彰显西方文化精神特质(两个世界、本质之学、主客两分、因果目的、精密分析等)的宿根性因素之一。

The Analysis of the Nature of Form and Its Original Relations with Western Thought

Form related to mathematics,physics,logic,metaphysics from the very beginning,characterizing by its ambiguity and a single phrase with abundant meanings.The essential attributes of form,for this reason,are not unitary and constant.It is impossible to give form a normative definition by genus and difference with precise intention and extension.The nature of form owned a remote source in logic,which has purely formal characteristics.Logic aims at pursuing universal truth about the understandable and formal truth concerning the world of reason.Form,logic,reason,mathematics,can not be regarded only as thinking medium,or scientific method,they are,in fact,propping up,regulating crucial concepts,propositions,features and topics in the field of metaphysics and epistemology.The exact determination of form should be fixed on either meta-category or non meta-category because of its specific complexity,ambiguity and flexibility.Form constituted one of perennial factors that has molded and displayed spiritual qualities of Western culture such as idea of two worlds,doctrine of essence,dichotomy of object and subject,causal determinism,exact analysis,etc..