经验论和唯理论是欧洲近代的两个认识论派别,它们之间进行过激烈的辩论。中国古代有没有认识论?有没有经验论和唯理论的斗争呢?本世纪30年代有人提出过这样的问题。当时多数学者认为中国古代没有认识论或认识论不发达,如冯友兰和金岳霖先生持这种看法。50年代以后,侯外庐等先生编写《中国思想通史》(六卷),最早对中国历史上每个哲学家进行认识论的 Empiricism and rationalism are the two epistemological factions in modern Europe and they have had fierce debates. Is there any epistemology in ancient China? Is there any struggle between empiricism and rationalism? Some people raised this issue in the 1930s. At that time, most scholars believed that there was no epistemology or underdeveloped epistemology in ancient China. For example, Feng Youlan and Jin Yuelin took this view. After the 1950s, Hou Wailu et al. Wrote The General History of Chinese Thought (six volumes), earliest epistemological epistemology of each philosopher in Chinese history