Why don't I just set aside my preliminary conceptions so that I can understand precisely what is there?

我为什么不能抛开这些初步概念,而正确地理解存在呢？

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Why do we care more about future non-existence ? than past non-existence?

为什么我们更在乎未来不存在的事,而不是更在乎过去不存在的事？

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Now, you know, when we've got our deterministic hats on, we think to ourselves, "There's got to be some underlying causal explanation, some feature about the break-down atoms that explains why they broke down and that was missing from the non-break-down atoms that explains why they don't break down.

现在,你知道,当我们用决定论的观点去分析这个问题时,我们自己寻思着,这背后一定有某种具有,因果关系的解释,某种关于分裂原子的特性,能解释为什么它们分裂了,而由于这种特性不存在于未分裂的原子,因而解释了它们为什么不能分裂

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