Frederick Cuvier and several of the older metaphysicians have compared instinct with habit.

弗雷德里克·居维叶 (Frederick Cuvier) 和几位年长的形而上本能与习惯进行了比较。

Even the palest of the pale are able to master him—messieurs the metaphysicians, those albinos of the intellect.

即使最苍白的人也能掌握他——形而上先生们， 那些智力上的白化病患者。

Instead, he considered the metaphysician as a patient instead of a criminal, and the function of philosophy as therapeutic.

相反，他认为形而上病人而不罪犯，哲的功能治疗。

Indeed, Kant's strongest argument against the earlier metaphysicians was that they wrongly ascribed existence to alleged beings and realities beyond sense experience.

事上，康德反对早期形而上的最有力论点，他们错误地存在归结于所谓的存在和超越感官经验的现。

They spun their webs around him for so long that finally he was hypnotized, and began to spin himself, and became another metaphysician.

他们在他周围织网很久，最后他被催眠了，开始自己织网，变成了另一个玄。

Russell rejected the unintelligible claims of idealist metaphysicians and, inspired instead by the precision of mathematics, he developed the theory of logical atomism.

罗素拒绝了唯心主义形而上难以理解的主张，相反，他受到数精确性的启发，他发展了逻辑原子论。

But the truth is that both have the same claim on our impartial attention, both are real, and both are important to the metaphysician.

但事，者对我们的公正关注有相同的要求， 都真的， 对形而上来说都很重要。

The question still remains, though, why a metaphysician would want to adopt a recommendation like this if it rendered meaningless everything the metaphysician said.

然而，问题仍然存在，如果形而上所说的一切都变得毫无意义，为什么形而上会想要采用这样的建议。

Nevertheless, fears of violating the verification principle still lingered in the minds of metaphysicians and moralists, many of whom avoided straying too far from empirical facts.

尽管如此，对违反验证原则的恐惧仍然挥之不去，他们中的许多人避免偏离经验事太远。

He argued that the material mode, commonly used in philosophy, frequently leads to the ambiguities and errors of metaphysicians and in generalis the source of meaningless philosophical controversy.

他认为，哲中常用的物质模式经常导致形而上的歧义和错误，并且通常毫无意义的哲争论的来源。

Most of the great ambitious attempts of metaphysicians have proceeded by the attempt to prove that such and such apparent features of the actual world were self-contradictory, and therefore could not be real.

大多数形而上雄心勃勃的尝试都为了证明现世界的这样那样的明显特征自相矛盾的，因此不可能真的。

The dogmatic character of metaphysics was made clear particularly by the variety of conclusions to which metaphysicians had come in their systems of thought, as shown by the differences between Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz.

形而上的教条性特别体现在形而上在他们的思想体系中得出的各种结论中，正如笛卡尔、斯宾诺莎和莱布尼茨之间的差异所表明的那样。

From this point of view he thought it foolish for metaphysicians to construct systems of knowledge even before they had determined whether, by pure reason alone, we can apprehend what is not given to us in experience.

从这个角度来看，他认为形而上甚至在确定我们否仅通过纯粹理性就能理解经验中没有给予我们的东西之前就构建知识体系愚蠢的。