The soul, we now say, based on the argument from recollection, the soul is one of our prior parts.

我们现在讲灵魂,在源于记忆的论证的基础上，灵魂是我们之前的一部分。

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All right. So the next question is, is the argument from recollection a good one?

那么下一个问题是,回忆论是否是无懈可击的呢

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Socrates says, "No. On the contrary, we do have reason, based on the argument from recollection, to conclude that the soul was around before we were born."

苏格拉底说,不对,恰恰相反,基于回忆论,我们有理由去说,灵魂存在于我们出生之前

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And this argument is known as "The argument from recollection."

这个论证被称作"回忆论"

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That was the argument from recollection.

那就是源于记忆的论证。

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That's how recollection works. All right.

这就是回忆论的原理

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That's the argument from recollection.

这就是源于记忆的论证。

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But very nicely, is quite elegent structure this point, Socrates puts toghther the two arguments that we just been rehearsing, the argument from recollection and the argument that came before that, the one that I dubbed the argument from recycling.

但是这一观点的结构非常精妙,苏格拉底把我们刚才演练的,两个论证放在一块，即源于记忆的论证,和在此之前的论证，就是被我称作源于轮回的论证。

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Now, bracket the fact that, as I just explained, I don't myself find the argument from recollection persuasive. I don't think we got any good reason to believe based on the sort of things Plato draws our attention to.

我刚刚解释了，我并不觉得源于记忆的论证,有说服力,在柏拉图让我们注意的,这些观点的基础上。

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