Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

  • -- William James 威廉·詹姆斯

事实上,真理在很大程度上依赖于信用体系。只要没有任何挑战,我们的思想和信念就会过去;只要没有人拒绝,钞票就会过去。

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Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.

最后,由于消化道是一个复杂的系统,是一系列独立的化学实验室,我切断了它们之间的联系,以便研究各个实验室现象的过程;于是我把消化道分解成几个独立的部分。

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

每一个客体都对应着一个理想的封闭的真理系统,这个系统是真实的,另一方面,一个理想的认知过程系统,通过这个系统,客体和关于客体的真理可以被赋予任何认知主体。

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

人类习惯了这样一个事实:有些语言是他一开始不懂的,而且必须学习,但因为艺术主要是视觉的,他希望自己应该立即得到信息,如果他不懂,就很容易被冒犯。

The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.

事实上,大多数演员都是害羞的人。