It turns into something durable that will outlast them. So, the problem with art is in a sense that it is immortal.

那么，它让事物脱离它本身而,永存，那么，艺术的问题在于它的永恒。

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Is it or isn't it true that those things which are eternal or non-physical can only be grasped by something that is itself eternal and non-physical?

我们是否可以说,那些永恒,或非现实的事物只能被,本身是永恒和非现实的其他事物认知呢

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This is an inductive definition.

你不能用事物的本身去定义事物。

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And we bump up against, we look at, we have interactions with these everyday objects and, somehow, they get us thinking about the Platonic forms themselves.

我们碰到,看到,我们和日常的事物互动的同时,它们让我们想到,柏拉图型相本身

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Or perhaps a better word would be what is it to be reminded of something by something else that resembles it but is not the thing it reminds you of.

更恰当一点的说法是,你是如何因为另一个类似的事物,而不是这个事物本身,联想到这个事物的

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If we give him number two, it's going to follow that whatever's doing the grasping-- call that the soul since the soul is just Plato's word for our mind-- if whatever's doing the grasping of the eternal and non-physical forms must itself be eternal and non-physical, it follows that the soul must be non-physical.

假如我们承认前提二,那么接下来就是不管是什么事物在认知,姑且称之为灵魂好了,因为灵魂是柏拉图对我们心灵的称呼,假如能够认知永恒,和非现实型相的事物本身必须是,永恒和非现实的,那么灵魂必须是非现实的

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We have to not talk-- just talk about the good things in the life, but the good of life itself, and we have to notice that perhaps on certain views, for certain cases, it's not really the case that when I die I'm being deprived of a good life.

我们不但要看到-,生活中的美好事物，还要看到活着本身的好处，我们发现也许有某些观点，在某些情况下，情况则不完全是这样,即我死之后不会被剥夺美好的生活。

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