Anti-holism,or Local holism?——On Kuhn's Holism Thought

Duhem-Quine thesis is closely related to holism. Moulines puts forward a schema to discuss holism and regards that Kuhn-Stegmuller's holism is plausible. He thinks that choosing Duhem-Quine thesis to refer to the scientific holism is a bad choice,namely there is no such things as Duhem-Quine thesis. Kuhn criticized the holism expressed by Duhem-Quine thesis as by-product of logic empiricism. In fact,Kuhn's early thought is a kind of whole holism,as he argued for the scientific revolution and incommensurability of paradigm in terms of gestalt-swift and world-changing. Later Kuhn advanced the concepts of taxonomic categories or lexicon,local incommensurability and untranslatability. The central terms in lexicon are inter-defined,and difficult to be translated into the language used by successive theory with a different lexicon. Kuhn called his theory as local holism. From the angle of holism,the difference between Kuhn's early philosophical thought and later could be generalized as development from whole holism to local holism.