The classification and analysis of textual data for elucidation of the noetic categories and the linguistic ones in the Western ancient and medieval thought

我们的研究项目是充分利用国外最近开发的西方哲学经典文本的光盘数据库，以便存款西方思想模式的基本结构，这种模式可能普遍支配着各种哲学家。借助现代电子书籍的高度发达，我们可以更容易地宏观地探讨问题背后的思想结构，而对文本的细节进行细致的研究。如果没有这种复眼，我们可能会陷入以“专业化”这个诱人的名字为伪装的无菌性的危险之中。然而，我们相信，古典的思想遗产基本上与任何哲学家的特殊性没有多大关系，无论他多么伟大。在这里，我们提出了上述项目的结果，试图接近思想的深层结构，分析柏拉图的梅农的文本，并仔细检查苏格拉底真正的想法。只要我们把研究活动看作是对一种定义或知识的追求，我们就很难发现记忆理论的任何意义，这种理论本来是经过精心修饰的，足以解释每一种研究的可能性，不仅是哲学的，而且是一般科学的。以前的研究大多被这种偏见所蒙蔽，只会错过理论的真正价值。当人开始研究时，人实际上面对的是理解问题而不是知识问题。基于他的洞察力，即每一个智力活动必须有一个字符的承诺，柏拉图敢于介绍的理论回忆。

Our project of research was to make the most use of the CD-ROM databases recently developed overseas in the field of the classical texts of the Western philosophy in order to deposit the ground structure of the Western patterns of thought, which has presumably dominated universally the various philosophers. With the help of highly improved electronic books nowadays, it is much easier to make a macroscopic approach at the structure of thought lying behind the particular problems, while we make a subtle study of the details of the texts. Without such compound eyes we might expose ourselves to the danger of falling into sterile labyrinths disguised with the attractive name of 'specialization'. We believe, however, the classical legacy of thought has essentially little to do with the particularity of any philosopher, however great he may be.Here we present a result of the project characterized above, trying to approach the deep structure of the thought, analyzing the text of Plato's Menon and examining carefully what Socrates had truly in mind. So long as we regard the activity of investigation as pursuits for a definition or knowledge, we can hardly find any significance of the theory of anamnesis which would have been polished enough to explain the very possibility of every investigation not only of philosophy but of sciences in general. Previous studies have been mostly blinded by this prejudice only to miss the true value of the theory. When man speakes of investigation, man is in fact faced with the problem of understanding rather than that of knowledge. On the ground of his insight that every intellectual activity must have a character of commitment, Plato dared to introduce the theory of anamnesis.