(八)结构功能无论在自然界或人类社会中,没有数量的质量,或没有质量的数量,同样都是不可思议的;但这并不妨碍为了具体地分析某种事物的某一个方面,有区别地处理它们。以价值形态的历史发展为例:~xW_α=~yW_b,这个方程式表明劳动生产物转化为 W,即使在它的历史起点上,也只有利用数学工具,才有可能达到这样高度的抽象。它抽掉进入交换过程的生产物的具体形态,只留下 Wa 和 Wb 这种抽象的形式,并在对立运动中把不同的生 (8) It is equally inconceivable that structural functions, both in nature and in human society, have neither qualitative nor quantitative qualities, but this does not preclude the need for a specific analysis of a particular aspect of something Deal with them. Taking the historical development of value forms as an example: xW_α = ~ yW_b, this equation shows that the transformation of a labor-producing product into W makes it possible to achieve such a high degree of abstraction even with mathematical tools at its historical starting point. It takes away the concrete forms of the products that enter the exchange process, leaving only the abstract forms of Wa and Wb, and in the opposite movement of different births