Is there any good reason to believe that we don't believe that we're going to cease to exist as a person?

有没有一个好的理由相信,我们不相信,自己会停止作为一个人的存在呢？

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The question we're asking is, "Is there a good reason to add to our list of things there are?

我们的问题是,有没有一个很好的理由,让我们往已写有东西的清单上再添上几笔

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So, if you're looking for another reason to quit, if you're looking for a reason not to start smoking, here's another good one.

因此，如果你正在寻找戒烟的另一个理由，如果你正在寻找一个不开始吸烟的理由，这就是很好的一个。

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Well, it's just to keep the numbers-- there's actually not a very good reason to do splits.

其实只是为了维持一定的数量,实际上分割并没有很好的理由

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I don't think that's a very good reason because you choose to- either way you have to choose who dies because you either choose to turn and kill the person, which is an act of conscious thought to turn, or you choose to push the fat man over which is also an active, conscious action.

我认为这不是一个很好的理由,因为不论哪种情况，你都得选择让谁死,或者你是选择转弯撞死一名工人，这种转弯就是种有意识的行为，或者你是选择把胖子推下去,这同样是一种主动的，有意识的行为。

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That would be a good argument if we had good reason to believe the conditional, the if-then claim.

如果我们有很好的理由相信这种假设，那这就是个很好的论据。

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Even if recycling takes place, we don't have any good reason yet to believe that the soul is one of the recycled parts.

即使循环的确发生了,我们并没有很好的理由来相信,灵魂就是一个循环的部件

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But for all that, it's not because you've got any good reason not to kiss the person.

但尽管如此，并不是因为你有什么好的,不去亲吻这个人的理由。

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Next question is going to have to be: If there are, do we have any good reason to think that they survive the death of the body?

下一个问题将是,如果存在,我们有没有很好的理由去相信,肉体死亡后灵魂依旧存活

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Suppose that if you--Suppose we believed--we had good reason to believe-- if you really took seriously the thought that you were going to die, you couldn't stop screaming.

假设我们有很好的理由相信-,如果你确实很认真地相信自己会死，你会尖叫不断这个事实。

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Basically that the various arguements that might be offered for believing in souls don't seem very compelling upon examinations so there's no good reason to posit this extra entity.

基本上要我们相信灵魂的,不同的理据,都经不住考察,所以我们没有很好的理由,来假设这个额外实体的存在。

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Earlier the objection was, We had no good reason to think the soul was one of the building blocks from which we're composed; we have no good reason to think it's one of the pieces that was around before our body got put together, before our birth.

早一点的反驳意见是,我们没有好的理由来相信灵魂,是组成我们的一个基础部件,我们没有好的理由去相信它是,在我们出生前,身体形成前就存在的部分之一

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And of course,we don't have any good--as far as I can see-- we don't have any good reason to believe that crucial premise.

当然我们也没有很好的理由-,来相信这个重要前提。

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I don't think we got any good reason to believe that soul existed before we were born.

我认为没什么好的理由让我们相信,灵魂在我们出生前就已存在。

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That's the crucial premise, and what I want to say is, as far as I can see there's no good reason to believe number two.

那就是最关键的前提,并且我想要说的是,依我来看,目前,并没有很好的理由来相信前提二

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Is there a good reason to add the soul, something immaterial?"

有没有很好的理由再加上,灵魂之类的非物质实体

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Well, that's right and of course we don't have any good reason to follow Plato when he says it must be the case that the soul exsited prior to birth.

这是正确的,而且我们没什么好的理由,跟随柏拉图的观点,即，灵魂存在于出生之前。

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but rather, is there any good reason to think that we're all or most of us are in that situation, are in that state of belief where, although we give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, is there any good reason to believe that fundamentally we don't actually believe it?

而是是否有好的理由认为,我们中全部或者大部分都处于，这样一种相信的状态，虽然我们都声称自己会死，是否有好的理由相信,我们其实根本不相信呢？

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