He was also one of the earliest empiricists that we know about.

也是我们所知的最早的验主义者之一。

An empiricist is someone who believes that all knowledge is achieved through experience.

验主义者认所有的知识都是通过验获得的。

As Aristotle, like all empiricists, would say, knowledge begins with experience.

正如亚里士多德，和所有验主义者一样，会说，知识始于验。

All of them were emulous empiricists.

们三个都是好胜的验者。

" And yet Berkeley was the most consistent of the empiricists" .

“然而，伯克利是最一致的验主义者”。

He stands out as the most important of the empiricists.

是最重要的验主义者。

" And you are going to talk about them today, these empiricists" ?

“你今天要们， 这些验主义者” ？

This view, however, was strenuously denied by Berkeley and Hume, who have been followed in this by later empiricists.

然而，这一观点被伯克利和休谟极力否定， 后来的验主义者也追随们的脚步。

In this way he tries to reconcile and harmonize the contentions of the rationalists with the arguments of the empiricists.

通过这种方式，试图调和和协调理性主义者的点与验主义者的点。

One of the great historic controversies in philosophy is the controversy between the two schools called respectively 'empiricists' and 'rationalists'.

哲学历史上最伟大的争之一是分别称“验主义者”和“理性主义者”的两个学派之间的争。

The most important empiricists – or philosophers of experience – were Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, and all three were British.

最重要的验主义者——或验哲学家——是洛克、伯克利和休谟，这三位都是英国人。

Twenty years ago, the classical tradition, having vanquished the opposing tradition of the English empiricists, held almost unquestioned sway in all Anglo-Saxon universities.

二十年前，古典传统战胜了英国验主义者的对立传统， 在所有盎格鲁撒克逊大学中几乎无可置疑地占据着主导地位。

It became a matter of great importance to the British empiricists to scrutinize all human conceptions to see whether there was any basis for them in actual experience.

对英国验主义者来说，仔细检查所有人类概念，看看它们是否有任何实际验的基础，成一件非常重要的事情。

There is another point of great importance, in which the empiricists were in the right as against the rationalists. Nothing can be known to exist except by the help of experience.

还有一点非常重要，那就是验主义者是右派，反对理性主义者。除了验的帮助之外，没有什么可以知道存在。