We cannot explore that whole network at this point; we shall return to other branches of it later.
我们还无法在本章解析整个谬论网,其诸多分支将放到后面的章节去解析。requires a little sense of victory, a roll of the drums, to call his powers into full exercise.
他需要谬论供他批驳,需要错误让他嘲笑,更需要一点胜利的气氛,一阵鼓声,以便最大限度发挥他的本事。Entertaining as they might be, most stories and plays about Devil worship must be recognized as the obsolete absurdities they are.
虽然大多数关于恶魔崇拜的故事和戏剧可能会很有趣,但必须认识到它们是被废除的谬论。He said the late economist's belief in shareholder primacy is today "an absurdity, an obscenity" .
他表示,这位已故经济学家所信仰的“股东至上”,现在看来是“一种谬论、一种无耻之言”。It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths.
常有人感叹说,坏经济学家向大众兜售谬论,往往比好经济学家宣扬真理更动听。It was a whole net- work of fallacies, out of which mankind has still been unable to cut its way.
这又是一张不容易梳理清楚的谬论网,而人类至今尚未能冲破它的羁绊。Yet among the arguments put forward in favor of huge foreign lending one fallacy is always sure to occupy a prominent place.
可是,在主张对外大量贷款的论调中,一个谬论始终占有重要位置。But I'll talk about them informally because it's just easy for you to understand.
但我不会谈得太正式,因为方便你们理解,好,我们来看看三种谬论;The metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.
第十一页:形而上学谬论包含我们必须把握的对进行思维的那些人来说意味着的最好线索。