在过去的几十年中，对语言的本质以及产生并使其易于理解的过程的研究表明，它具有极大的复杂性，而不是潜在的简单性。

Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.

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一旦人类被看作是在进化过程中发展起来的，那么“人类是包含在他的本质中的一种物质”的观点似乎就站不住脚了。

Once man came to be seen as developing in the process of evolution, the idea of a substance which is contained in his essence seemed untenable.

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在尝试这样做的过程中，他们产生了很多的想法，关于问题的本质和潜在解决方案会是怎样的。

In the course of trying to do so, they generated a lot of ideas about the nature of the problems and about what potential solutions would look like.

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Their distinctive customs manners laws habits moral dispositions and sentiments and Aristotle's constitutional theorizing begins by asking a simple question.

意即他们特有的习惯，风俗，法律，习性,道德意向及社群观感,而亚里士多德的本质理论化过程,是透过提问一个简单的问题。

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