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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

在我们大多数人看来，经验似乎能得出结论，但经验主义发誓永远不会得出这些结论。

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To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

经验主义要激进，既不能把没有直接经验的因素纳入它的结构中，也不能把有直接经验的因素排除在外。

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Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

人类所得出的错误结论，有一半是由于滥用比喻，把普遍的相似或想象的相似误当成真实的同一性而得出的。

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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

从经验中得出结论有什么好处?我不否认我们有时会得出正确的结论，但我们不也常常得出错误的结论吗?

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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

即使经验主义正在赢得人心，超验主义仍在继续赢得人心。

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