Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

  • -- William James 威廉·詹姆斯

真理从事实中产生,但它们又深入到事实中,并加以补充;这些事实又无限地创造或揭示新的真理(这个词是无关紧要的)等等。与此同时,“事实”本身并不真实。他们只是。真理是信仰的功能,信仰在真理中开始和结束。

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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

所有宽宏大量的人都对通常所说的“事实”感到恐惧。他们是智力领域的野兽。

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

只要这些事实与这些问题的解决有关,经验主义的兴趣就在于这些事实。