And it seems that if we accept the body view, we have to say being a person is not an essential property of being something like me.

似乎如果我们接受了肉体理论，就必须说作为一个人,并不是作为我的基本性质。

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It's not one of my essential properties that I'm a person.

作为一个人不是我的基本性质之一。

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Or perhaps, strictly speaking, what we should say is the only part that's essential to the person is the soul, though it's got a rather intimate connection to a particular body.

或者,严格地说来,我们可以表达为,灵魂是人最本质的部分,尽管它和肉体间保持着密切的联系

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