Simmias says we can't conclude that the soul is indestructible because we should not believe the subconclusion 4 invisible things can't be destroyed.

他说我们不能得出结论说,灵魂不朽或几乎不朽或其他什么,因为我们不该相信,4这个结论4,即无形的东西不可毁灭。

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Do we have any good reason to believe the soul survives the death of the body?

我们有什么理由去相信,灵魂在肉体死亡后仍能存活

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What makes it believable as an account of, again, ? the condition we are naturally in?

是什么使它变得让我们相信，我们是自然而然身处于这种状态之中？

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And,as Chateaubriand said,the writer, "I don't know what we must believe but we must believe in something," and he gets down on his knees and prays.

如作家夏多布里昂所言,"我不知道我们能相信什么,但我们必须相信点什么",然后他屈膝跪下开始祈祷

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Hold off again, for a few minutes at least, on the question, so what should we believe ? in the body view, the personality view?

等等，先抽几分钟，讨论一下这个问题，我们应该,相信什么？肉体论？人格论？

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we might start by asking, what reasons do we have to believe in anything?

我们也许就会开始怀疑,我们凭什么相信其他所有事物存在

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If we ask ourselves, "What reasons do we have to believe in a soul?"

如果我们扪心自问,我们凭什么相信灵魂存在

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We don't have any particular reason to think my heart's one of the prior-existing pieces; we don't have any good reason to assume that my soul's one of the prior-existing pieces.

我们没有什么理由,去相信我的心脏是之前就存在的,我们没有理由说,我的灵魂之前就是存在的

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But it's often seemed to people that if we really believe that death is the end-- and that's the assumption that I'm making here on out-- if we really believe death is the end, how can death be bad for me?

但是通常我们都会认为死亡就是终结-,我现在所设定的条件就是-,如果我们真的相信死亡就是终点，死亡对我来说有什么不好呢？

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