On the First Ground of the Distinction of Regions in Space
On the First Ground of the Distinction of Regions in Space
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论空间区域区分的第一个依据
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1991
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I. Kant
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I. Kant
著名的莱布尼茨丰富了科学的许多实际的贡献;但他也受理了许多更大的项目，执行的世界一直在徒劳地等待他。我在这里不想发表意见，说明为什么会这样;他是否觉得他的文章还太不完整--这是有真实的价值的人所特有的一种一丝不苟的态度，这种态度常常使学问失去一些宝贵的片断--或者他是否像布尔哈夫所称赞的那些伟大的化学家那样，经常宣布他们的业绩，好像他们已经掌握了这些业绩似的，而实际上他们只是相信自己的技巧，相信如果他们一旦下定决心去做，就不会失败。至少看起来可能的是，某种数学教学体系，莱布尼茨在预期中称之为《分析情境》（Analysis Situs），除了意图之外，从来就不存在。许多作家，包括布丰（在论述自然界在细菌中的退化时），都为我们因此而遭受的损失而惋惜。
The celebrated Leibniz enriched the sciences by many actual contributions; but he also entertained numerous greater projects, the execution of which the world has in vain awaited from him. I shall not here pronounce an opinion why this was so; whether his essays seemed to him still too incomplete — a scrupulousness peculiar to men of real worth, and one which has ever and again deprived learning of precious fragments — or whether it was with him as with the great chemists, of whom Boerhaave conjectures that they frequently announced performances as if they had them in their power, while actually they were only giving credence to their skill, believing that the execution could not miscarry if they once resolved to undertake it. At least it seems probable that a certain body of mathematical teaching, which Leibniz in anticipation entitled Analysis Situs,2 never existed save in intention. Many writers, including Buffon (in dealing with the involution of Nature in germs), have lamented the loss which we thereby suffer.