Whatever the number two is, it's something that our mind can grasp but isn't actually in the physical world.

不管数字2是什么,它是心灵可以掌握的东西,而在物质世界中却不存在

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What you'll notice very delicately is that there's not all that much to this so called floppy disk.

你会注意到这种称之为软盘的东西,现在已经不怎么存在了。

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After all, the whole point of nonexistence is you don't exist ? How could anything be bad for you when you don't exist?

毕竟不存在的全部意义就是,你不存在,怎么可能有什么东西对你来说有坏处？

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Well, you show the thing that would cause you to have the fear without the unconditioned stimulus.

找出在非条件刺激不存在的情况下,能够使你感到恐惧的东西。

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You don't want to predicate making complicated gambles under the assumption that they don't exist.

你不会将赌注,押在不可能存在的东西上

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language, my language ] -what I say and what I think in language--speaks true.] That's the position taken up, not at all the same thing as saying what's out there doesn't exist -nothing to do with that.

那就是，语言，我的语言，说的是真话,这里的语言是指我所说的，以及我用语言所思考的],就是那个立场，与说那里什么东西不存在是完全不同的,与那个没有任何关系。

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And if you imagine Kagan not existing, then you're imagining that single thing, Shelly Kagan, not existing.

如果你想像卡根不存在,那么你也就是在想象那个唯一的东西,薛立·卡根不存在

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How could anything be bad for something that doesn't exist?

对于不存在的东西怎么会有坏事情？

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It's rather, "Can you imagine a world in which the very thing that you really are picking out when you refer to me by the name Shelly-- namely this thing-- can you imagine a world in which that thing exists, but the thing that you're picking up when you use the word Kagan does not exist?"

而是在于,你能不能想象在一个世界里,你用薛立这个名字,指的那个人,也就是这个东西,你能不能想象在一个世界里某个东西存在,而你用卡根这个词,所指的这个东西却不存在

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