Murray F B
College of Education, University of Delaware, Newark 19716.
Adv Child Dev Behav. 1991;23:39-47. doi: 10.1016/s0065-2407(08)60020-8.
The good theory of human development is a complete theory, a theory that addresses the 10 points cited above. While the good theory cannot be about a set of a priori and objective facts, it is nevertheless about a set of facts that control the degree to which theory and interpretation correspond to them and are also consistent with other propositions in the theory and with other theories. Correspondence and consistency are compatible attributes of the good theory and are achieved through a dialectical exchange between a community of investigators that demands, in the end, that some theories and accounts be discarded because they fail to conform to the facts, as they were established in the theory, or because they lead to a reductio absurdum with regard to other established propositions. They fail, in other words, because they fail to sustain a sentiment of rationality.
好的人类发展理论是一个完整的理论，一个涉及上述十点的理论。虽然好的理论不能是关于一组先验的客观事实，但它仍然是关于一组事实的，这些事实控制着理论与解释与之相符的程度，并且还与该理论中的其他命题以及其他理论相一致。相符性和一致性是好的理论的兼容属性，是通过研究人员群体之间的辩证交流实现的，这种交流最终要求摒弃一些理论和解释，因为它们不符合理论中确立的事实，或者因为它们会导致与其他既定命题的归谬法。换句话说，它们失败是因为它们无法维持一种理性的感觉。
