Identity is not necessary, but contingent, as the philosophers put it."

同一性不是必然的,而是偶然的,就像哲学家们常说的

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It wasn't a coincidence they bought somebody from Asia.

他们买亚洲的球员不是偶然的。

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So he says, no one would take seriously the proposal that a human organism learns through experience to have arms rather than wings, or that the basic structure of particular organs results from accidental experience.

他认为,没人会相信人体组织通过学习经验,长出了手臂而不是翅膀,或者特定器官的基本结构,是偶然经验的结果

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