Suppose we don't know what economic circumstances we'd be born into and what kind of contingencies we'd have in life.
假设我们不知道,将会在怎样的经济环境中生存,而生命中又会有怎样的意外发生。
Let's say that you're not feeling so well.
假设你觉得有点不舒服。
So, I take that that's all right with you-- that you can come to a special section of this class.
我假设对你们来说,时间不冲突,你们可以把这当做特殊课时
So that means it's not possible, if we've made these stipulations in the first place, to have a case where l equals 1.
这说明我们之前的假设,l等于1不可能的。
That Joseph, a Semitic foreigner, could be elevated to an important post, the post of governor, is a little less surprising, if we suppose there was a Semitic regime.
约瑟夫,外来闪族,可能被提拨到高位,统治者的位置,这也就不那么令人惊奇了,如果我们假设当时有一个闪族王国。
Suppose the other guy didn't exist, Suppose Pepsi didn't exist, so Coke has the whole market, then we would solve out this problem.
假设对手不存在,假设百事可乐不存在,那么可口可乐占领整个市场,然后我们就可以解决这个问题
That is,we think it's conceivable that somebody could, at some level,not really believe they're going to die.
就是说假设确实有人,在某种程度上不相信自己会死亡。
I assume that you know nothing, starting from ground zero here and build it up.
我假设你们什么都不知道,零起点,从头开始
So suppose we do it irreversibly.
假设它是不可逆的。
Far from having a sort of rational actor model of politics, he operates with an irrational actor model. He assumes that it is not reason but our passions that are the dominant force of human psychology, our desires, our aversions, our passions.
没有一个政治上理性的典范,他就着手塑造一个,不理性的典型,他假设,感情,而不是理性,是统领人类心理,欲望,厌恶和情绪的主要力量。
Now, you might have said, gee, why didn't it just assume that I wanted to in fact treat these as strings, and combine them together?
现在,你们可能会认为,伊,为什么Python不假设,我实际上想把这些对象当做字符串一样对待,然后把它们组合到一起呢?
I have no idea where that is other than to know that it's up so let's just go ahead and assume that everything over here is the heap so what has just happened?
我不知道它在哪里,只知道它在上面,我们假设这里所有的东西是堆,那么会发生什么呢?
And just to simplify the discussion, put aside the question of law, let's assume that you as the jury are charged with deciding whether what they did was morally permissible or not.
为了简化讨论过程,撇开法律问题不谈,假设你们作为陪审团,只需裁定,他们的所作所为,在道德上是否是允许的。
But what if instead of taking the fluid from a cow, I inoculated--he inoculated me, let's say, and waited until I had the lesion at the right stage, then took some of my fluid and gave it to Brian and Nate and Mirtalla and spread it through the community around me.
但假如不从奶牛那儿取得脓液,假设说是从他那里接种,等到病变程度合适,然后把我的脓液给,布莱恩和纳特还有米特拉,并在我身边的人们之间传播
If markets were perfectly efficient, David Swensen could not have done what he did.
假设市场完全有效,大卫·斯文森就不可能有现在的成绩
I don't know which of these metaphysical hypothesis is the correct one.
我不知道,哪个形而上的假设是正确的。
There's some space up in heaven where all the unborn babies are that will live in the future and, unfortunately, they're not able to have a town meeting; but, let's suppose they could.
想象一下在天堂的某处,所有尚未出生但即将诞生的小婴儿们在那儿,可惜的是,他们开不了人民大会吧;,不过,我们假设这能成真。
Suppose--I don't believe in souls,but suppose there really are souls.
我不相信灵魂的存在,但假设有灵魂。
And let's say you can't hold that.
而且假设你坚持不了。
If you start listing all the things worth having in life, it might seem as though you couldn't possibly come to any general organizing principles.
假设你开始列出人生中值得拥有的东西,你似乎不可能,总结出一个概括性的组织准则。
I don't know whether we can or can't. Suppose we can.
我不知道这样是否可行,假设可以。
It does not presuppose any background in philosophy.
不假设你们之前学过任何哲学。
But part of the process of being systematic is not assuming that I'm going to get a lucky guess. But not even thinking really hard at this point. But just pruning the search space.
但是系统化的过程是不允许,假设我做出了,一个幸运的猜测的,而是逐步缩小搜索空间。
Let's assume that I know what I'm earning next year; there is actually uncertainty about it.
假设我知道我明年会赚多少钱,虽然这通常都是不确定的
But if,unbeknownst to me,and I presume unbeknownst to you, there's somebody in Michigan right now who's got Shelly Kagan's personality, Shelly Kagan then we have to say,huh,it turns out I'm not Shelly Kagan after all.
然而我不知道,假设你们也不知道,现在在密西根有个家伙也拥有Shelly,Kagan的人格,然后我们不得不说,看来我并不是。
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