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学家本能与习惯进行比较。

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

即使是最苍白的人也能掌握他——形而上学家先生们， 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，他认为形而上学家是病人而不是，学的功能是治疗。

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的最有力论点是，他们错误地存在归结于所谓的存在和超越感官经验的现实。

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，自己织网，变成另一个玄学家。

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

罗素拒绝唯心主义形而上学家难以理解的主张，相反，他受到数学精确性的启发，他发展逻辑原子论。

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，两者对我们的公正关注有相同的要求， 都是真实的， 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的一切都变得毫无意义，为什么形而上学家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，学中常用的物质模式经常导致形而上学家的歧义和错误，并且通常是毫无意义的学争论的来源。

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.

大多数形而上学家雄心勃勃的尝试都是为证明现实世界的这样那样的明显特征是自相矛盾的，因此不可能是真实的。

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.

形而上学的教条性特别体现在形而上学家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的东西之前就构建知识体系是愚蠢的。