And so as a way of understanding what at this point is really the sheer repetitiveness of this disclaimer, I want to propose a metaphor.

因此为了理解这个论点是否真的,是这种放弃的纯粹的重复，我将会提出一个隐喻。

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No. 2, we believe that young people have to be a key part of building that ethos One of the reasons for that is purely demographic.

其次，我们认为青年人,必须成为建立该社会风气的主力,其中的一个原因,纯粹是从人口统计学来考虑的。

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So there must be more to us than a merely physical thing."

所以我们绝不是一个纯粹物理对象

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Politics must become a purely worldly affair.

政治必须成为一个纯粹的世俗事务。

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If the dualist comes and says, "Can't you just see that it's not remotely possible, it's not conceivably possible, for a purely physical object to have experiences, to have qualia?"

如果是二元论者,他们则会走过来说,你没觉得吗,一个纯粹的物理对象,能够拥有体验和感受性的可能性,简直微乎其微,就连想想都觉得难以置信

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So--a conclusion-- We are not a purely physical system.

所以 我们得到一个结论,我们不是纯粹的物理系统

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Could a purely physical being fall in love?

一个纯粹的物理对象能坠入爱河吗

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The argument I'm about to sketch is a purely philosophical argument, not really so much a matter of who can explain this or that feature of us better than anybody else.

我接下来要介绍的,是一个纯粹的哲学论证,并非绝对意义上的,解释优劣决定孰强孰弱

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