下述事实多年来给我留下了印象,即一个革命主题把一大批十九世纪和二十世纪形而上学家同他们的前辈分离开来。尽管这个形而上学家集团成员中间有很大的分歧,但是他们都一致认为,始终被看成是没有时间性的形而上学真理多少是和历史分不开的。如果尼采断言没有上帝,柯林伍德主张形而上学假定是不可证明的,他们两人都没有说 I have been impressed over the years by the fact that a revolutionary theme separates a large number of metaphysicians from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from their predecessors. Although there are major differences among the members of the metaphysical group, all agree that the metaphysical truth that has always been seen as timeless is inseparable from history. If Nietzsche asserted that there was no God, Collingwood argued that metaphysical assumptions were unverifiable and neither of them said