Baron Degerando, elegant writer :)

Xanthippe

I am not sure if the last sentence is correct. Or perhaps there are more mistakes.

Here, Śniadecki dismantles Kant's distortive conceptual framework: it works like a hair-splitting machine that grinds out a long procession of dazing new words for old things. It is in this context that he cites Degérando: "Frappé de la richesse de la broderie, on n'aperçoit pas les défauts du fond". This curiously reminds one of Degérando's defence of Locke, whom the Kantian school unjustly accused of empiricism fixated on single sense impressions. Degérando points out that some German writers used to confuse 'empiricism' with 'experimental philosophy' ('la philosophie d'expérience') while "l'empirisme ne voit que l'extérieur du temple de la nature; l'expérience pénètre dans son sanctuaire".
However close this resemblance may appear, it hides crucial dissimilarities between Śniadecki's and Degérando's lines of thought.

mheredge

I can't detect any mistakes @Xanthippe.

Xanthippe

@mheredge, that's great. I have only three days for correction. Thank you very much.

mheredge

It's a pleasure!