启蒙要用知识代替想象，而技术是这种知识的本质，它只是一种工具或手段，启蒙理性演变成工具理性。

The Enlightenment tries to replace fantasy with knowledge, however, the knowledge's essence is technology; it is only an instrument or means. The Enlightenment reason evolves into instrumental reason.

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在形成的过程中，材料必须接收到环境信号，反映气候变化，并能被现代物理或化学手段破译。

In the process of formation, the material must have received an environmental signal that reflects a change in climate and that can be deciphered by modern physical or chemical means.

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作为一个实地考古学家，我不相信我们能用科学手段对它们进行证实或证伪。

I do not believe, as a field archaeologist, that we can use the scientific method to prove or disprove them.

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In other words, you are an end and not a means to me unless in fact I'm exploiting you and instrumentalizing you. Right?

换言之，对我来说，你不是手段，而是目的,除非我在剥削你，或把你工具化，是吧？

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They aren't recourse to a separate science or lore or body of knowledge or interpretive craft that calls upon forces or powers that transcend God or are independent of God.

不依赖于某种独立的技术或知识而存在,或者通过某种手段把超越上帝,或者不受上帝控制的力量聚集起来。

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Hobbes believes that armed with the proper method, with the proper art, or scientific doctrine, that we might eventually become the masters and possessors of nature.

霍布斯则认为，只要具备了恰当的方法，恰当的手段或科学的思想，我们最终会变成,自然的掌控者和拥有者。

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