存在一个真实的世界，独立于我们的感官之外；大自然的规律不是由人发明的，而是自然世界强加给他的。

There is a real world, independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man but forced upon him by the natural world.

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独立思考对于我们的学习是绝对必要的。

Independent thinking is an absolute necessity in our study.

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独立宣言中，有一个关于我们的生存权、自由权以及追求幸福的权利的章节。当时我在想，他是怎么知道要把“追求”这个词写进去的？

In the Declaration of Independence, in the part about our rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, and I remember thinking how did he know to put the "pursuit" part in there?

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If the mind is just a way of talking about the body, how could I imagine the mind without the body?

如果心灵只不过是身体的另一种说法,我怎么能独立于身体想象心灵呢

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If they were the same thing, I couldn't--I can't imagine the body existing without the body.

如果两者一体,我是无法独立于身体想象心灵的

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The point is just if I can at least imagine the one thing without the other, they must in fact be two separate things.

我们要讨论的是,至少如果我可以想象,某物独立于另一物存在,那么它们就肯定彼此不同

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