It's a problem, as you'll see, designed to give you some practice at dealing with some of the, dare I say, more theoretical concepts we've covered in class.

这种问题会让你在处理我们,课堂上并没有讲到的更多,理论概念这方面上有更多实践,这种问题就像算法复杂度一样。

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Earlier theories-- it's wonderful to have scientific theories that you can use to handle these problems, which you cannot demonstrate any fact for whatsoever.

更早些的理论...,幸好我们还有些科学理论,可以用来处理这些问题,这些没有实例,可以证明的问题

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How does Foucault deal with this? He invents a concept.

那么福柯是怎么处理的呢？，他发明了一个理论。

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