Find a scientific man who proposes to get along without any metaphysics… and you have found one whose doctrines are thoroughly vitiated by the crude and uncriticized metaphysics with which they are packed. We must philosophize, said the great naturalist Aristotle —- if only to avoid philosophizing. Every man of us has a metaphysics, and has to have one; and it will influence his life greatly. Far better, then, that that metaphysics should be criticized and not be allowed to run loose. (Charles Sanders Peirce, “Notes on Scientific Philosophy.”)
一月 2, 2006
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