We spent the first half of the semester,you might say, trying to get clear about the metaphysical facts.

我们将前半学期花在，试着弄清楚那些形而上学的事实。

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These sorts of questions will occupy us for roughly the first half of the semester.

这些问题将会大约占到,这学期的前一半时间。

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Every day of the semester say it before you go to sleep.

这学期每天入睡前都要读。

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And a lot of it is already in those books but my hope is that our goal to the next book by transcending it through this common experience with you and already thinking in those terms.

很多书有讲这些哲学问题,但我希望通过和你们一起的经历,我们的下一本书,能够超过上一本书,这些都已经在前几个学期开始构思了。

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First half of the class, metaphysics; second half of the class, value theory.

前半学期，形而上学;,后半学期，价值理论。

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