On Feng Qi's View Of Concrete Truth

"Truth" is a word that can not be avoided by any philosophers who focus on epistemology, so, in all ages, the theory on truth has been developed quite perfectly. Feng Qi, a modern famous Marxist philosopher of China who dedicated his whole life to the career of philosophy, also discussed the truth in a special chapter in his self-constructed system of "epistemology in the broad sense" and put forward a characteristic view on concrete truth. In this paper, we shine light on Feng's view of concrete truth mainly from the following four aspects: (1) Definition and characteristic of concrete truth, (2) Acquisition way of the concrete truth, (3) Grasping of the concrete truth, (4) Adscription of the concrete truth. It is the second and the fourth aspects that prominently exhibit some of his particular opinions on the truth. With regard to the acquisition way of the concrete truth, Feng regarded that the concrete truth is obtained by proposing "questions", disputing "opinions", criticizing "approaches" and testing practice. This is more novel and concrete than the approaches of "practice-cognition-practice" and "perceptual concrete -scientific abstract -rational concrete" etc. On the adscription of the concrete truth, the truth all the times has been thought by philosophers to only have a composition of "knowledge". Therefore, in this sense, truth belongs to "theory of knowledge". However, Feng regarded that truth not only has a composition of "knowledge" but also has an ingredient of "wisdom" and it should be considered to belong to "epistemology in broad sense". Feng's view of concrete truth has important meanings.