So why not take president Obama at his words, and simply impute the motives that he claims?

所以为何不相信奥巴马的言论，相信事实就如他所说的一样呢？

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You wouldn't believe it reading the Popular Press but it's really true, it's really true.

读了大众报纸上讲的,你们可能不相信我所说，但那是事实。

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So even if it were true that belief requires picturing, and even if were true that you can't picture being dead from the inside, it wouldn't follow that you can't believe you're going to die.

所以即便不能相信无法想象之物这一说法，是真实的,人无法从内部想象死亡的感觉，也不代表不能相信自己会死亡这事实。

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From which I think it follows that the mere fact that I've smuggled myself in as an observer doesn't mean that I don't really believe in the possibility that I'm observing in my mind's eye.

我想接下来就是说,仅仅是我将自己作为观察者进入,这一事实并不代表我不相信,我在脑中构建的这种可能性。

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