Actually, let me start by saying I'm going to distinguish two broad families of characteristics we might appeal to.

我首先来,区分一下两个不同种类的特征,我们也许会用到它们

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Geographically it's different. We're 8 hours from the ocean from any water.

地理特征就不同。我们去海边大约有8个小时的路程。

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And none other than Thomas Jefferson himself left this famous description of characterizations of Southerners and Northerners.

最有代表性的便是托马斯·杰斐逊他本人,用这么一段人们耳熟能详的话,描述了南方人与北方人的不同特征

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Well, let's consider a different feature.

我们考虑另一个不同的特征。

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So, for example, when people, and we'll talk about this next class, were looking at different characteristics spectra of different atoms, what they were seeing is that it appeared to be these very discreet lines that were allowed or not allowed for the different atoms to emit, but they had no way to explain this using classical physics.

举个例子，当大家看到,不同原子的特征光谱时,他们看到的是一些分离的线,那可以使不同的原子,发射或不发射出去，但是这些无法用经典物理来解释。

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His career, where he attempted many times to play roles that were different from his Vulcan nature, stalled until finally many years later he gave up and wrote another book called I Am Spock where he finally conceded to the fundamental attribution error.

在他的演艺生涯中，他多次想扮演,不同于Vulcan人特征的角色时，都没演成，终于很多年以后,他放弃了，并写了一本书《我是Spock》,他终于在基本归因错误面前让步了。

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What about the fact that-- We said there's a family of arguments, all of which have the general structure, inference to the best explanation, you need souls in order to explain feature F. Plug in a different feature F and you get a new argument.

这个事实怎么样,我们说过有一大类观点,它们有一些共同的结构,有关于这个最佳解释的推论,需要用灵魂的概念,来解释功能特征F,代入一个不同的,功能特征就会得到一个新的论点

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