I have to be able to distinguish between all the signs I use in any communicative sequence.

我们能清楚辨明所有符合,特别是在我们和彼此交流的时候。

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It is a system of signs, in other words, that we can make use of, that we recognize as signs precisely because they exist among us as something that can be shared in common.

它是一套符号，我们可以利用，我们可以清楚地辨明这些符号，它们无处不在,是我们大家共同分享的。

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Not just to enliven these abstract and distant books but to make clear, to bring out what's at stake in our everyday lives, including our political lives, for philosophy.

不仅是为了将这些深奥抽象的著作形象化,还为了让我们通过哲学辨明,日常生活，包括政治生活中什么才是最关键的。

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- So what are these truths? We'll begin to answer this question--begin to answer this question, you'll spend the rest of your life finishing the process of answering this question. But we'll begin by identifying some, by no means all, of the major themes of Genesis 12 through 50.

那么这些真实是什么？我们将开始回答这个问题,开始回答这个问题，你们将用余生的时间来完成,这个问题的解答过程，但我们将开始辨明一部分的,不可能是全部的，《创世纪》十二至五十章的主要主题。

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