So I think these are the implicit ship we are gonna to be thinking about and talking about.

所以我认为这些就是,我们要思考和,谈论的深层目标。

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You need to pin down an object of study, a first principle from which other principles can emerge, and part of the process is to say, "Hey, it's not literature we're talking about.

首要原则是，需要锁定要谈论，即学习的目标，可是，谁知道什么是文学。

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The first is this, that emotions are basically mechanisms that set goals and priorities and we're going to talk a lot about in this class and the next class about universals.

首先，情感是基本机制,设定目标及事务优先级,我们将谈论很多关于宇宙的话题,在这堂课和下堂课。

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