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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Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses.

接着,为了调查四名传道士所述的事实是否有充分和令人满意的证据加以证明,我们首先要考虑建立证人信誉的责任落在哪一方。

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

统计学的定义:从可靠的数字中得出不可靠的事实的科学。