Bole T J
Department of Philosophy, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA.
J Med Philos. 1995 Oct;20(5):543-9.
This note uses an analysis of Broussais's objection to medical ontology to suggest why Broussais's neologism omicron nu tau omicron iota is derived not from omicron nu tau alpha but from a conflation of omicron nu tau alpha and the plural of omicron gamma kappa omicron sigma. For Broussais medical ontology, in contrast to philosophical ontology, always refers to abstract entities alleged to explain sensible symptoms, omicron gamma kappa omicron iota, in the sense of indivisible particles in the writings of Lucretius and Epicurus, are such particles; omicron nu tau alpha are not.
本笔记通过对布鲁塞反对医学本体论的分析,来表明为何布鲁塞创造的新词omicron nu tau omicron iota并非源自omicron nu tau alpha,而是源于omicron nu tau alpha与omicron gamma kappa omicron sigma复数形式的合并。与哲学本体论不同,布鲁塞的医学本体论总是指那些据称能解释可感知症状的抽象实体,在卢克莱修和伊壁鸠鲁著作中不可分割粒子意义上的omicron gamma kappa omicron iota就是这样的粒子;而omicron nu tau alpha则不是。