That's how those examples worked, the hypotheticals with which we began with their mix of playfulness and sobriety.

正如我们刚举的例子，那些严肃而又不乏趣味的假设性问题。

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Theory is very often a purely speculative undertaking.

理论通常是假设性的。

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There are two points that we talked about -the hypothetical points that came out of the small group discussions that I suggested we might think about at the beginning of this talk.

我们已经讨论了两点,其中假设性的一点,在课程刚开始时,我提出划分小组进行讨论时,就已经讲到了

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