It becomes, at certain moments in the evolution of forms according to the Russian formalists, the dominant.

根据俄国形式主义者们的说法,它只是在进化中变成了支配而已。

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But in thinking about math, most of us are inclined to be Platonists.

但在用数学的方式进行思考时,我们都倾向于变成柏拉图主义者

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Should it trump all other goods or does toleration reach a point when it ceases to be toleration and becomes in fact a kind of soft nihilism that can extend liberty to everything precisely because it takes nothing very seriously.

它胜过所有的好吗,或是容忍在达到一定的临界点时,就会崩解,而变成某种柔性虚无主义,且几乎援用到所有事物上,因为它对任何事都不是很认真。

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