Long before Milton had begun to tackle the problem, Christians had for centuries, for millennia, puzzled over the logical inconsistency between these two concepts.

早在弥尔顿应对这个问题之前，基督教徒们就已经花了成百上千年，为这两个概念之间逻辑上的前后矛盾感到困惑。

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Isn't the reason I think unicorns are logically coherent is because I can imagine them so easily?

我认为,独角兽在逻辑上不矛盾的原因,不正是因为我能够轻易的想象它们吗

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Why is he calling attention, in other words, to this logical disparity?

为什么要让读者，注意到他逻辑上的矛盾呢？

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It doesn't say anything logically contradictory about this view.

也不是说有什么,逻辑上与之矛盾。

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