Contemporary Political Science Studies and Natural Language Problems
Author: Song-Shi Yuan
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This paper is intended to point out that in contemporary political science studies there are full of natural language concepts which are ambiguous in meaning and consequently it is not so easy to make political science as a mature theoretical science in the near future. In order to overcome those difficulties in the way of arriving at as an exact science, political science can merely do their efforts by definition methods, precisely defining every concept being introduced in the context. Can definition methods solve all problems facing political science studies in the way of becoming an precise science? So far the answer is negative. In contemporary political science not any definition can precisely express the totality of meaning of natural language terms or concepts, especially the mental concepts as well as theoretical concepts frequently being used. However, it is necessary to do our utmost efforts to transform natural language into constructed language in contemporary political science studies in order to make political science as a powerfully explanatory science in future.