How do we know?

我们要怎么知道呢
There will always, he suggests, appear to be something

他认为研究政治学的方法仿佛
ad hoc about the methods used in the study of politics.

总是特别的
We will have to let the method fit the subject, rather than demanding

我们是要让方法适用与学科中而不是
the subject matter fit a kind of apriori method.

让学科去迁就一钟推测的方法
To insist on that kind of methodological purity,

若坚持这种纯粹的方法论
he implies, would be to impose a false sense of unity,

意味这这会出现整体错误的感觉
a false sense of certainty or absoluteness on the study of

研究政治的过程中会出现会不断改变
politics, which is variable and contingent and always subject

偶尔出现但贯穿并改变整个学科的
to flux and change.

虚假的真实感
Even while Aristotle may deny that there is a single method appropriate

即使当亚里士多德否认了单一的方法适合
to the study of politics, he proposes a set of common

研究政治他仍建议了一系列政治家