Yet the “buffer theory” seems to be based on weak empirical foundations.

但是，“缓冲理论”似乎建立在薄弱的经验主义基础之上的。

So we usually make a distinction between British empiricism and Continental rationalism." " What a lot of difficult words!

所以我们通常会把英国的经验主义大陆的理性主义区分开来。” “好难听的话！

He knows his empiricism from his logical positivism, and as you'll hear, computers found a way into his philosophy.

他从他的逻辑实证主义中了解他的经验主义，你将会听到，计算机找到了进入他的哲的方法。

Chomsky's innateness hypothesis is based on his observations that some important facts can never be otherwise explained adequately.

乔姆斯基认为语言是天生的，儿童与生俱来的拥有一种语言习的能力，叫做" 语言习得机制" 。这是一种让他们适合语言习的独特知识。乔指出儿童天生被赋予一种能力，不仅包括习语言的趋能，还包括关于语言性质的知识。从这种观点可看出，儿童天生拥有语法关系及语法范畴的知识，并且这种知识是普遍的。这种处理语言的方法，是对心理的行为主义哲上的经验主义的一种挑战，并使语言成为了心理的一个分支。乔姆斯基的天赋假设是建立在他对一些重要现象的观察的基础之上的，这些现象无法用其他的理论解释清楚。

Thanks in large part to the empiricism of behavioural economics, it is less wedded to abstractions like the perfectly rational actor.

主要得益于行为经济的经验主义，法律经济不再那么执着于完全理性的行为者等抽象概念。

You may recall that Locke was not consistent in his empiricism. He believed, for example, that faith in God and certain moral norms were inherent in human reason.

你可能还记得洛克在他的经验主义上并不一致。 他认为，例如，对上帝的信仰某些道德规范是人类理性中固有的。

The second, by Joshua Greenberg, takes a more empirical approach to universality identifying traits (particularly in word order) shared by many languages, which are considered to represent biases that result from cognitive constraints.

第二次努力——由乔舒亚·格林伯格做出——采用更为经验主义的方法来研究语言的普遍性，确定了多种语言（尤其在语法词序方面）的共有特征，这些特征被认为是代表了由认知局限产生的倾向。