Today I want to discuss with you a new approach to empirical research.

今天，我想和你们探讨一种新的实证研究方法。

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The empirical evidence, such as it is, suggests an altogether different function for yawning—namely, that yawning prepares us for a change in activity level.

很多实验证据证实了打哈欠的另一个不同的功能，它能让我们做好准备，改变活动状态。

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In other words, they provide hard evidence, resting on a solid empirical base.

换句话说，它依靠可靠经验主义基础，提供确凿的证据。

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So there's a kind of empirical argument for the existence of the soul if we found those kinds of results.

所以如果能找到那样的结果,就能成为灵魂存在的经验主义论据。

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Now, at this point I have to just confess, as I've confessed at other times before, the three is a claim about empirical science.

在这一点上我必须承认,像我之前承认过的那样,前提三是关于实证科学的

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People have done experiments through the ages, and they've accumulated the knowledge from these experiments, and they've synthesized these experiments into a few basic empirical rules, empirical laws, which are the laws of thermodynamics.

很长的时期内，人们做了大量的实验，从这些实验中积累知识,将这些实验总结成一些基本的经验法则和定律，这就是热力学的定律,然后，人们给这些定律添加，数学架构。

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