小奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯在《普通法》（The Common Law）[1] 中探讨了监禁的目的，在思考监狱存在的意义时，我觉得他的观点非常深刻。> 人们过去认为，惩罚的目的在于改造罪犯；在于震慑罪犯……
Oliver Wendell Holmes discusses the purpose of incarceration in The Common Law [1], and I've found it to be insightful when thinking about what the purpose of prison is. > It has been thought that the purpose of punishment is to reform the criminal; that it is to deter the criminal…
……但我认为这里牵涉到更深层的问题。那就是即使语法毫无歧义，语义理解依然很难。我在后来成为最高法院（SCOTUS）大法官的霍姆斯 1881 年出版的《普通法》（The Common Law）里找到了一段相关的引述。这是该书开篇的第一句话：本书的目的在于呈现普通法的全貌。要完成这项任务，除了逻辑之外还需要其他工具。证明这一点本身就……
…but I think much deeper issues are at hand here. It is that semantics are hard, even when the grammar is unambiguous. I found a relevant quote from a 1881 book by a future SCOTUS justice (Holmes), The Common Law. This is the very beginning of the book: The object of this book is to present a general view of the Common Law. To accomplish the task, other tools are needed besides logic. It is something to show that…
…over all the cases of fraud and abuse that were responded to over the years by PayPal's current policies. "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law (1881), page 1.
"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law (1881) page 1. In other words, the Anglo-American system of common law is a system that has developed by generalizing from particular cases as they come up, and not by thinking from the top down about…
……以及数学书中的推论那样对待。”[1] [0] O.W. Holmes, Jr., The Path of the Law, 10 Harvard Law Review 457 (1897), https://www.constitution.org/lrev/owh/path_law.htm [1] O.W. Holmes, Jr., The Common Law, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2449
…and corollaries of a book of mathematics." [1] [0] O.W. Holmes, Jr., The Path of the Law, 10 Harvard Law Review 457 (1897), https://www.constitution.org/lrev/owh/path_law.htm [1] O.W. Holmes, Jr., The Common Law, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2449
…is usually how the law (and business custom) develops, by encountering actual human behavior. As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote, "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." The Common Law (1881), p. 1.
小奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯在《普通法》（The Common Law）[1] 中探讨了监禁的目的，在思考监狱存在的意义时，我觉得他的观点非常深刻。> 人们过去认为，惩罚的目的在于改造罪犯；在于震慑罪犯……
Oliver Wendell Holmes discusses the purpose of incarceration in The Common Law [1], and I've found it to be insightful when thinking about what the purpose of prison is. > It has been thought that the purpose of punishment is to reform the criminal; that it is to deter the criminal…
……但我认为这里牵涉到更深层的问题。那就是即使语法毫无歧义，语义理解依然很难。我在后来成为最高法院（SCOTUS）大法官的霍姆斯 1881 年出版的《普通法》（The Common Law）里找到了一段相关的引述。这是该书开篇的第一句话：本书的目的在于呈现普通法的全貌。要完成这项任务，除了逻辑之外还需要其他工具。证明这一点本身就……
…but I think much deeper issues are at hand here. It is that semantics are hard, even when the grammar is unambiguous. I found a relevant quote from a 1881 book by a future SCOTUS justice (Holmes), The Common Law. This is the very beginning of the book: The object of this book is to present a general view of the Common Law. To accomplish the task, other tools are needed besides logic. It is something to show that…
……纵观多年来 PayPal 现行政策所应对的所有欺诈和滥用案例。“法律的生命不在于逻辑，而在于经验。”——小奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯，《普通法》（1881），第 1 页。
…over all the cases of fraud and abuse that were responded to over the years by PayPal's current policies. "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law (1881), page 1.
“法律的生命不在于逻辑，而在于经验。”——小奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯，《普通法》（1881）第 1 页。换句话说，英美法系的普通法是一个随着具体案件的出现、通过归纳总结逐步发展起来的系统，而不是自顶向下地去思考……
"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law (1881) page 1. In other words, the Anglo-American system of common law is a system that has developed by generalizing from particular cases as they come up, and not by thinking from the top down about…
……以及数学书中的推论那样对待。”[1] [0] O.W. Holmes, Jr., The Path of the Law, 10 Harvard Law Review 457 (1897), https://www.constitution.org/lrev/owh/path_law.htm [1] O.W. Holmes, Jr., The Common Law, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2449
…and corollaries of a book of mathematics." [1] [0] O.W. Holmes, Jr., The Path of the Law, 10 Harvard Law Review 457 (1897), https://www.constitution.org/lrev/owh/path_law.htm [1] O.W. Holmes, Jr., The Common Law, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2449
……这通常正是法律（以及商业惯例）的发展方式：在与实际的人类行为碰撞中演进。正如小奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯所写：“法律的生命不在于逻辑，而在于经验。”《普通法》（1881），第 1 页。
…is usually how the law (and business custom) develops, by encountering actual human behavior. As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote, "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." The Common Law (1881), p. 1.