And if you imagine Kagan not existing, then you're imagining that single thing, Shelly Kagan, not existing.

如果你想像卡根不存在,那么你也就是在想象那个唯一的东西,薛立·卡根不存在

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This was the burglar example where they had two copies of everything.

也就是那个窃贼的例子,每件东西都有两件。

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Then you put something else that you know in your mind, which is that the highest point is the point when it's neither going up nor coming down.

然后你就想到了些东西,也就是说,最高点,就是那个既不上升也不下降的点

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language, my language ] -what I say and what I think in language--speaks true.] That's the position taken up, not at all the same thing as saying what's out there doesn't exist -nothing to do with that.

那就是，语言，我的语言，说的是真话,这里的语言是指我所说的，以及我用语言所思考的],就是那个立场，与说那里什么东西不存在是完全不同的,与那个没有任何关系。

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It's rather, "Can you imagine a world in which the very thing that you really are picking out when you refer to me by the name Shelly-- namely this thing-- can you imagine a world in which that thing exists, but the thing that you're picking up when you use the word Kagan does not exist?"

而是在于,你能不能想象在一个世界里,你用薛立这个名字,指的那个人,也就是这个东西,你能不能想象在一个世界里某个东西存在,而你用卡根这个词,所指的这个东西却不存在

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