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

我们的研究计划是最大限度地利用最近在国外开发的西方哲学经典文本领域的光盘数据库，以沉积西方思维模式的基础结构，这种模式可能普遍支配着各种哲学家。如今，在高度改进的电子书的帮助下，当我们对文本的细节进行细致的研究时，我们更容易对特定问题背后的思想结构进行宏观的研究。如果没有这样的复眼，我们可能会陷入被“专业化”这个诱人的名字所掩盖的无菌迷宫的危险之中。然而，我们相信，思想的经典遗产基本上与任何哲学家的特殊性无关，无论他是多么伟大。在这里，我们提出了上述项目的一个结果，试图接近思想的深层结构，分析柏拉图的《Menon》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，因为记忆理论本来足以解释哲学和一般科学的每一种研究的可能性。以前的研究大多被这种偏见蒙蔽，而错过了理论的真正价值。当人们谈到调查时，实际上面临的是理解的问题，而不是知识的问题。柏拉图基于他的洞见，即每一种智力活动都必须具有承诺的特征，他大胆地提出了记忆理论。

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.