方法论个人主义

有吹毛求疵的政治哲学家认为，如果撒切尔想成为真正的方法论个人主义者，她本不会在那场著名的讲话中加上“家庭”。

Nit-picking political philosophers have said that if she wanted to be a true methodological individualist she would not have added " and there are families " in her famous statement .

在我的理解中，她的话是“方法论的个人主义”（methodologicalindividualism）的表达（但愿她不是在演讲稿撰写者的劝说下说出这番话的）。

I interpreted her remarks as an expression of methodological individualism ( although I pity any speech writer who sought to persuade her to say those words ) .

方法论的个人主义得到一大批经验主义思想家的支持，其中有些人的政治观点与撒切尔大相径庭。

Methodological individualism has been espoused by a long line of empiricist thinkers , some of very different politics to Thatcher .

简而言之，方法论的个人主义是指，复杂整体的运作机理一定能够以个体成员的形式表达出来——化学元素用原子表达，原子用亚原子粒子表达，国家用公民表达。

Very briefly it means that the workings of complex wholes must be capable of being expressed in terms of individual components - chemical elements in terms of atoms , atoms in terms of subatomic particles and nations in terms of their citizens .