There's something else I wanted to say to indicate this notion of men being the polis as opposed to anything tangible.

我还想说点其他的,来解释一下人是城邦人,而不是任何实体地方的人这样的观点

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Each one of us, according to the physicalist, is just a body that can do some amazing things.

我们每一个人,按照物理主义的观点,就是能干出某些令人惊叹事情的实体

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This idea that I don't really care, or that I don't really think I can come to terms with the actual meaning of an entity as that entity, is instrumentalizing the entity.

我不在乎，或不接受这个观点,它认为一个实体作为实体的意义，在于使实体工具化。

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Initially, last time, we considered a set of or a subset of arguments that basically said, "Look, there's got to be more to us than just material objects.

起初,上节课上,我们探讨了一类或者说是,一小类论证,这些论证的基本观点是,我们肯定不仅仅是些物质实体

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