Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

  • -- William James 威廉·詹姆斯

真理从事实中产生,但它们又深入到事实中,并加以补充;这些事实又无限地创造或揭示新的真理(这个词是无关紧要的)等等。与此同时,“事实”本身并不真实。他们只是。真理是信仰的功能,信仰在真理中开始和结束。

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But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

但是,正如我们以前所指出的那样,达尔文先生的大多数陈述由于含糊不清和不完整而没有受到自然史事实的检验。

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

我会试着把这些段落填满事实,给它们一个重量和形状不超过一朵蓝色蝴蝶的云。