Traditional Chinese medicine has a lot of tension metaphor

-YanPing good southern medical university school of Chinese medicine

     Metaphor is not only the rhetoric, it as a way of thinking, has the function of methodology. Traditional Chinese medicine of metaphor, it has a lot of tension in the exhibition of rich imagination and, at the same time, the scientific exploration of the open door. Although metaphor cognition of fuzziness side, but it has the creativity of the scientific theory and the development state space in the meaning of play the role, not undervalued.

    The author thinks that, the basic characteristics of the traditional Chinese medicine of metaphor has 3: it is agility, it reflects the things the main and outstanding attributes; 2 it is directly, it can get through senses the perceptual materials directly, without special training. 3 it is simple, it can be with a small amount of information for thinking. The fuzziness of metaphor, represents the thinking vivid flexible side, make the person can be efficient and processing of information. Multifarious

    Traditional Chinese medicine analogy thinking for the use of extensive and mature, the resulting energy is not only the source of imagination, is also the source of creativity. The secco said: "metaphor create meaning", ChengZaiSiYan. Richard attached great importance to the metaphor in a complex scientific research, the function of his book "in the emerging points out that: the core of the metaphor is creating activities, up to speed up innovation process, metaphor the results it produces is innovation. Traditional Chinese medicine as an excellent representative of the Chinese traditional culture, the exuberant vitality, the analogy with it attaches metaphor. The analogy with larger freedom, contact as reasoning in a limited amount must not within the scope of the rules, it can overcome great types boundaries and knowledge space, in two seemingly ill-advised object to build relationships, as long as the two object in a certain point are similar in, thinking between along.

    But the analogy thinking is strong subjective color, metaphor in the extension of that wide coverage and connotation of the advantages of the richness, it is limited. The accuracy of the inevitable Analogy produced blurred, fuzzy covered accurate, freedom of association rules, take hold analogy like hindered analysis and deduced, this is we have to see.

    The content of the rich though referred to metaphor but often cause diversity of solution, this problem in the watchword in traditional Chinese medicine, of course, it also exists for the development and progress of the traditional Chinese medicine, has not to be ignored in the negative effect. Metaphor of TCM plus or minus two cognitive the impact, as the effects of a double-edged sword, to which we must have a clear and rational understanding.

     Metaphor is one of the important tool to know the world. Because the fuzziness, it in scientific and technical areas of legitimacy status was under questioning of the logical empiricism. Logical empiricism think; All the scientific concept should be based on strict logical induction and deduction, the scientific theory of language must be strict, statements, no precise ambiguity.

     But history shows that there is almost no scientific theory based on pure logic construction. When physicists investigation invisible microscopic material world, then it must seek appropriate metaphor from language expression method. Neils Bohr, Heisenberg, brown etc. Scientists have long aware of this. Scientific theory should also must have an appropriate flexibility and blur to retain its prophetic, and open.

     Metaphor the use of language, successfully make up for the pure form of word forms by logic theory language "zombie", "close" defects, greatly expand the scientific theory provided space the significance of the statement. With the transformation of the scientific ideas and theories of metaphor, in-depth understanding more and more attention by scientists groups, including Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein, many scientists, know that metaphor is a kind of can be used for "approach" and communication complex scientific concepts language tools convenient, its use for scientific theory of structure and development is rather importance. Scientific language in the subjective and objective, precision and fuzzy, logic and can keep the necessary between extremes, it briefly in ZhangLiZhong tension constantly for their own path.

    Metaphors in science are indispensable. SaNi even think: science, not so much by using deductive work, rather science through metaphor work. The main use is through metaphor the concept and explain with some more familiar things up and help understand contact. JiMan is the history of science is equivalent to change history. Metaphors He said, the scientific theory of metaphor is inevitable, and we couldn't get metaphor from scientific reasoning out to go out. Scientific metaphor is not only the thought tool or rhetoric, they just is the essential contents of the scientific theory. Quality in all, the history of science is model and metaphor changing history.

     Contemporary metaphor study shows the new characteristics of The Times, the Santa fe institute put the metaphor as a kind of important scientific research methods and the complex science. Holland Chinese language for metaphor that provide the European language can not match possibility, he notes: "the real combined the two traditional-Europe and America the logic of science-and the Chinese traditional mathematics method of combining metaphor analogy--may be effectively break the existing two traditional entirely separate restrictions. In human history, we are faced with a complex problem, the comprehensive study of the two traditional may be able to help us do a better job."

     Learn Chinese medicine treatment of metaphor in the tension, it has a lot of energy to the people of the fountain opened the scientific exploration of the gate. Traditional Chinese medicine of metaphor and metaphor, need from philosophy discourse pattern and cognitive science and other areas of DuoWei Angle of interpretation of the deep, and in all traditional Chinese medicine to the world. People around the world can not only benefit from the application level in traditional Chinese medicine, at the same time it can from the academic level of traditional Chinese medicine theory profound understanding scientific connotation and characteristics.