《中国社会科学》1992年第1期刊载了王荫庭先生的《“社会存在”范畴释义》一文,同年第6期又刊载了何祚榕先生与王荫庭先生的商榷文章。拜读两位学界前辈的文章,颇受启发与教益,但同时又觉得两位先生的观点似有进一步探讨与磋商的地方。笔者初涉学界,特别是作为曾受教于王先生的学生,不避浅陋之嫌,谈谈对唯物史观中的“社会存在”范畴的理解,以就教于王、何两位先生及学界同仁,并冀使这一问题的讨论更进一步深入。 In the first issue of China Social Sciences in 1992, Mr. Wang Yinting published the article “Interpretation of the Category of” Social Existence “. In the sixth issue of the same year, he also published a debated article on the relationship between Mr. He Yirong and Mr. Wang Yinting. Reading two predecessors of the academic articles, very inspired and lessons, but at the same time think the two scholar’s point of view there is further discussion and consultation. The author first involved in the academic community, especially as a student who had been educated by Mr. Wang, did not avoid the shallowness of the suspicion, to talk about the ”social existence" category in historical materialism, so as to teach Yu Wang, Mr. and two academicians Colleagues and hope that the discussion on this issue will be further deepened.