He makes a perfectly plausible argument to the effect that the question is grammatical rather than rhetorical.

他提出了一个貌似非常可信的论据,大意是说这个问句是语法型的，而不是修辞型的。

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Now I think in order to make this viewpoint seem plausible, we probably should study it for a moment a little bit more philosophically.

现在为了让这个观点听起来更合理一些，我们可能,应该更哲学地学习一下。

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Or is it more plausible to suggest, "No. What's happened here is a soul has been released from connection with the body."

或者这样说更合理,这里发生的就是,灵魂从与身体的联系中解脱了

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The problems are set up so that, if you start down the right path, it should be pretty straight-forward to work it through If you start down a plausible but incorrect path, you can sometimes find yourself stuck in the weeds somewhere, and we want to bring you back in.

问题提出了，如果你从，一开始就走正确的道路，解决的途径,就一目了然了,如果你走上一条貌似正确但实际错误的道路，你会在某时某刻,发现自己陷入泥沼，于是我们就会把你拉回来。

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So the question for us remains, which deeply challenged readers in Hobbes' own time, what makes Hobbes' story, as I am calling it, his story about the state of nature ? being a condition of war, what makes it plausible?

所以我们的问题依然存在，这使霍布斯时代的读者感到深深的挑战，是什么使得霍布斯的故事，关于自然状态的故事,战争状态的故事，是什么使它真实合理？

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Well,if you don't find the no branching rule plausible, you're in trouble as a body theorist.

如果你觉得无分支规则不可行，那作为肉体理论者，你就麻烦了。

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And the answer that strikes me as most plausible is, it's the very fact that there's a significant chance of death that helps explain why people do this.

让我觉得最似乎合理的答案是，正是有很大的死亡的可能性这个事实,解释了为什么人们这么做。

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There was certainly a long period of time in which I found the personality theory, that is,the personality theory with a no branching rule, to be the better and more plausible theory.

有一段时间内，我觉得无分支理论下的，人格理论，是更好更合理的理论。

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And it seems like a plausible enough view.

这个观点似乎有一定的说服力

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It seems plausible to think that whether or not a person can survive or continue to exist after the death of his or her body should depend on how he's built, what he's made of, what his or her parts are.

这似乎可以理解成,一个人的肉体死亡后,能否幸存或继续存在,是取决于他的构造,他的组成部分,他或她各部分的构件

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The question was: Would it be plausible to say that at the early phases of A, strictly speaking,the body's not functioning, because it's so utterly dependent on help from the mother's body.

问题是，可否说在早期A阶段，严格地说，身体还未开始运作，因为其还依附于母体的帮助。

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