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这里呈现给读者的是保罗·费耶阿本德60年代写给托马斯·S.库恩的两封信。这两封信的具体写作时间不详,据现有材料分析,第一封信大致写于1960年秋至1961年秋之间,第二封信大致写于1961春至1961年秋之间。在这两封信中,费耶阿本德对库恩的《科学革命的结构》(SSR)的手稿进行了坦率而热烈的讨论,并且预见到了日后有关库恩主张的公开争论中的一些论点,甚至人们对库恩的许多误解。从这些论述中读者可以对费耶阿本德60年代初期的思想有所了解。信中文字下的下划线及双线为原作者所加,黑体字在原文中均为大写。编者在{}中加上了与信中所引手稿内容相对应的SSR第二版的页码以及一些注释,以供读者参考。
Presented to the reader here are two letters by Paul Feyerabend to Thomas S. Kuhn in the 1960s. According to the analysis of the available materials, the first letter was written roughly in the fall of 1960 to the autumn of 1961, and the second letter was broadly written between the autumn of 1961 and the fall of 1961. In these two letters, Feyerabend had a frank and lively discussion of Kuhn’s manuscript of the “Structure of Scientific Revolutions” (SSR) and foreseen some of the future arguments in the public debate about Kuhn’s assertion , And even many people misunderstand Kuhn. From these discourses, readers can understand Feyerabend’s thoughts of the early 1960s. Underlined letters and double lines in the letter are added to the original author. The bold characters are capitalized in the original text. The editor adds the page number of the second edition of SSR corresponding to the manuscript contained in the letter to {} and some notes for readers’ reference.