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From “In My Opinion" to “Examined against Reasoning": Meditation on Methodology in the 20th Century
TONG Shi-jun
Teaching and Research
2000, (2):
49-56.
In the 20th century development of methodology experienced the following development stages. First, the stage of “making and testing hypotheses"; Second,Kuhn’s idea of rejecting possibility of a common criterion for comparison of development of science at different stages, Feyerabend’s idea of “whatever method will do", and Putnam’s idea of circulation of theory and method; Thirdly, within the Western culture there exists a tendency of colonization of humanities by natural science, and an “anti colonization movement" against it by social humanitarian methodology. Finally, the author points out that how to transcend gradually from the defective “me" to the guiding “we", a concept leading to self perfection, will become a major theme for methodological research in the new century.
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