...是1993年第三版,周昌忠译,台北:时报(1996), 与初版(1973)相较,在此版本中,著名的第八章(强调特设性假说(ad hoc hypotheses)的正面意 义),及第十五、十六章已删略,而部分章节增写。 返回
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Scientists should not accept hypotheses which are "AD hoc" - that is, just tailored for one specific situation but cannot be generalized to others.
科学家不应该接受那些“特例”假设——即这些假设仅仅可以对某一个非常特殊的情况做出解释,却并不能应用到更加普遍的情况当中去。
Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly: they are ad hoc, they are arbitrary, they rarely make predictions and when they do they almost never come true.
倘若用科学假设的眼光来看,宗教信仰的确不值一提:他们仅仅讨论一些特例,他们都是随机事件,他们很少做出预测并且就算他们给出了一些预言,也很少成为现实。
Scientists should not accept hypotheses which are "ad hoc" — that is, just tailored for one specific situation but cannot be generalized to others.
科学家不应该接受那些“特例”假设——即这些假设仅仅可以对某一个非常特殊的情况做出解释,却并不能应用到更加普遍的情况当中去。
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