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

弗雷德里克·居维叶 (Frederick Cuvier) 和几形而上学家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.

即使是最苍白人也能掌握他——形而上学家先生们， 那些智力上白化病患者。

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

相反，他认为形而上学家是病人而不是罪犯，哲学功能是治疗。

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

事实上，康德反对早期形而上学最有力论点是，他们错误地存在归结于所谓存在和超越感官经验现实。

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，变成了另一个玄学家。

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学家难以理解主张，相反，他受到数学精确性启发，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.

但事实是，两者对我们关注有相同要求， 都是真实， 对形而上学家来说都很重要。

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，如果形而上学家所说一切都变得毫无意义，为什么形而上学家会想要采用这样建议。

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，对违反验证原则恐惧仍然挥之不去，他们中许多人避免偏离经验事实太远。

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，哲学中常用物质模式经常导致形而上学家歧义和错误，并且通常是毫无意义哲学争论来源。

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.

大多数形而上学家雄心勃勃尝试都是为了证明现实世界这样那样明显特征是自相矛盾，因此不可能是真实。

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.

形而上学教条性特别体现在形而上学家在他们思想体系中得出各种结论中，如笛卡尔、斯宾诺莎和莱布尼茨之间差异所表明那样。

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，他认为形而上学家甚至在确定我们是否仅通过纯粹理性就能理解经验中没有给予我们东西之前就构建知识体系是愚蠢。