On The Methodological Significance Of Ideological Experiment

In the history of scientific development, thought experiment has always been used by distinguished philosophers, thinkers and scientists. Thought experiment means the creative thinking which is used by scientific subjects, the experimental designing imagination which replacing the real object, and the process of making a analysis of objective law. On scientific methodology, thought experiment belongs to the category of rational thinking. In several centuries, thought experiment has been widely used and promoted by a lot of scientists, and it became a kind of unique experimental activity in modern scientific research. As a method of scientific research, thought experiment is playing an important and irreplaceable role in every field. Thought experiment which overcoming the limitation of object can not get rid of the material conditions. It can improve thinking abilities of people and contribute to the development of scientific knowledge, thought experiment is an effective way to construct a new theory and open up a new natural science research direction. It is an important symbol of improving the ability of a human’s comprehension. In the growing scientific, the cognitive activities are always away from the everyday activities of the experience and intuition. With equipments which required for scientific research activities are becoming complex, the use of rational thinking in thought experiment will be more extensive in research activities. As the attribute of thought experiment is comprized of thinking and nature, thought experiment itself becomes a convenient and effective path which could make the scientific understanding be happened, formated and embedded.With the turning of scientific outlook, traditional knowledge science steered into practical science and universal science turned to local science since the1950s. The nature of science switched from corresponding theory into explainable theory and conventional theory. So, in the context of such turning, thought experiment developed into a new stage, it would play a more important role in technological innovation, the process of polybasic methodology and the social science.