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
questions that political scientists have to address.

需要处理的问题
He lays out these questions at the very beginning of the fourth book of

他在《政治学》第四册的最开头便
the Politics.

提及了这些问题