And of course,we don't have any good--as far as I can see-- we don't have any good reason to believe that crucial premise.

当然我们也没有很好的理由-,来相信这个重要前提。

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The state of nature fully continues, in many ways, oddly even in civil society, he says, whenever we have reason to believe that our lives or our properties or ourselves are not secure.

从很多方面来说，自然状态，即使在文明社会里也显得奇怪，不论我们是否有理由相信我们有生活,生命和财产财产安全的保障。

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This Paulson proposal probably has very little chance of being implemented as is, but it's put in to change the discussion and it's going to be talked about a lot and I suppose it will influence what happens.

其实鲍尔森的计划基本上不能,完完全全的实施下去，但是他的努力将起到改变人们话题的作用,人们的讨论也将越来越激烈,我相信这会影响我们将来的经济形势的。

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And again, I'm not gonna go on and on about this point, it worth noticing that even if you do believe that soul exist, nothing stops you from accepting the body theory of personal identity.

重申一下，我不想一直,讨论这个问题，我们得明白,即使你相信灵魂的存在，你也可以同时接受,人格同一性的肉体存在论。

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