He rejects the idea that the city is defined simply by a group of people who inhabit a common territory the same space as it were.

他拒绝将城市简单定义为,一群人住在同一领土上的概念,即同一空间。

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In particular, all languages, at minimum, are powerful enough to convey an abstract notion like this; abstract in the sense that it talks about thoughts and it talks about a proposition and spatial relations in objects.

尤其是所有的语言都至少,能够有效地表达抽象概念,在某种意义上来说,抽象概念能够表达思想,能够表述物体的位置与空间关系

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