The centrality Aristotle ascribes to politics forces us to consider another question ? namely what is the purpose of this study?

亚里士多德加到政治中的,中心论点迫使我们考虑另一个问题,即这门研究的目的为何？

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It's a question of saying, "How on earth would you ever have the concept 'heterosexual' if you didn't have the concept 'homosexual' in place?" Right? The absolute interdependency of these concepts is, again, central to her argument and to her understanding of things.

这就像是说，如果首先没有“同性恋“这个概念,又怎么会有“异性恋“这个概念呢’,是吧，这些概念的绝对依赖性，是她论点的中心，同时也是她理解事物的中心轴。

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