斯特劳森的基础主义

基础主义是西方知识论中的主流理论,其历史可以追溯到亚里士多德,经过笛卡儿、康德、罗素等,一路传承至今。斯特劳森的描述的形而上学可以视为是一种基础主义,它试图描述我们人类的思想结构,为经验或客观殊相的知识寻求合理的基础和根据。这种基础主义把基本殊相视为基础的信念,而基本殊相有物质物体和人两个,前者为我们提供指称框架或概念图式,后者为我们的经验提供了出发点和根据。

Strawson's Foundationalism

As a mainstream in western epistemology,the foundationalism had formed historically long before and it keeps up to now from Aristotle to Descartes,Kant and Russell.Strawson's descriptive metaphysics can be regarded as the core of foundationalism,which attempts to describe the construction of human beings' thoughts and seek for the sound foundation and reference for experience or knowledge of objective particularity.In this way the foundationalism sees the basic particularity involving material body and pers...