Truths a priori held their own against truths surely relative.

先验的真理与对的真理对立。

There is, however, not much to be said about the state of confidence a priori.

然而， 关于先验置信度的状态没有太多可说的。

You would not think it, to look at them. There is no a priori probability about it. A strange enigma is man!

只看他们的外表，你是想不到的。这并不是先天的，人生就是一个谜。

The phrase 'a priori' is less objectionable, and is more usual in modern writers.

“先验” 这个词不那么令人反感， 在现代作家中更常见。

Thus the scope and power of a priori principles is strictly limited.

因此， 先验原则的范围和权力受到严格限制。

Hence he inferred the far more doubtful proposition that nothing could be known a priori about the connexion of cause and effect.

因此，他断出一个更值得怀疑的命， 即关于因关系的任何事情都不能先验地知道。

But Kant undoubtedly deserves credit for two things: first, for having perceived that we have a priori knowledge which is not purely 'analytic', i.e.

但康德无疑在两件事上值得赞扬：首先， 因为他认识到我们拥有一种不是纯粹“分析的” 的先验知识， 即。

The a priori insistence on this unity ended by fatiguing the more active — or reactive — minds; and Lord Bacon tried to stop it.

对这种统一性的先验坚持最终导致更活跃——或反应性——的头脑疲惫不堪； 培根勋爵试图阻止它。

If this were so, we should be involved in a definite contradiction if we attempted to deny anything that could be known a priori. '

真是这样， 那么我们试图否认任何可以先验已知的东西， 我们就会陷入一个明确的矛盾之中。

Our derivative knowledge always depends upon some pure a priori knowledge and usually also depends upon some pure empirical knowledge.

我们的衍生知识总是依赖于一些纯粹的先验知识，通常也依赖于一些纯粹的经验知识。

Before the time of Kant, it was generally held that whatever knowledge was a priori must be 'analytic'. What this word means will be best illustrated by examples.

在康德之前，人们普遍认为，任何先天的知识都必须是“分析的”。这个词的含义将通过示例得到最好的说明。

This proposition is of great importance, and goes a long way towards solving our previous difficulties concerning a priori knowledge.

这个命非常重要， 对解决我们先前关于先验知识的困难大有帮助。

In this way what seemed mysterious in our a priori knowledge is seen to have been based upon an error.

通过这种方式， 我们先验知识中看似神秘的东西被认为是基于错误。

This suggests a proposition which we shall now endeavour to establish: namely, All a priori knowledge deals exclusively with the relations of universals.

这提出了一个我们现在将努力建立的命：即所有先天知识都专门处理共的关系。

Hence, although our general proposition is a priori, all its applications to actual particulars involve experience and therefore contain an empirical element.

因此，尽管我们的一般命是先验的， 但它对实际细节的所有应用都涉及经验， 因此包含经验要素。

But whether or not this psychological law strikes the reader as plausible a priori, it is certain that experience would be extremely different from what it is if the law did not hold.

但是，无论这条心理学律是否先验地使读者印象深刻，可以的是，该律不成立，经验将与实际情况大不同。

Thus he was led to the conclusion that all pure mathematics, though a priori, is synthetic; and this conclusion raised a new problem of which he endeavoured to find the solution.

因此，他得出结论，即所有纯数学，尽管是先验的，都是综合的；这个结论提出了一个新问，他努力寻找解决办法。

This world is of great importance to philosophy, and in particular to the problems of a priori knowledge.

这个世界对哲学非常重要， 尤其是对先验知识的问。

A priori knowledge is not all of the logical kind we have been hitherto considering. Perhaps the most important example of non-logical a priori knowledge is knowledge as to ethical value.

先验知识并不都是我们迄今为止一直在考虑的逻辑类型。也许非逻辑先验知识最重要的例子是关于伦理价值的知识。

This illustrates the difference between general propositions known a priori such as 'two and two are four', and empirical generalizations such as 'all men are mortal'.

这说明了先验已知的一般命（例“二和二等于四”）与经验概括（例“所有人都会死”）之间的区别。