And so there is this critical school that says, "I won't believe anything unless it is proven to me."

有批评家指出,"我不会相信没有证据的历史"

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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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Then, finally, we have to believe, there's no escaping, I think, that there was another thing that provided for memory, something we call the epic tradition.

然后,最终,我们不得不相信,这是没有出路的,我想,是另一种,我们称之为史诗的传统支撑起了记忆

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Was Plato simply unaware of this, I can't believe that.

柏拉图却没有注意到这点，我不相信。

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And so I'm going to try to convince you that there is no soul.

我尝试让你们相信是没有灵魂的。

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I can believe in the possibility of a world without me, even though I smuggle myself in as an observer when I picture that world without me.

即便在设想没有我的世界时，将自己作为观察者带入其中,我还是能相信没有我的世界存在的可能。

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Because, after all, this isn't Plato saying, "Here's what I believe explicitly."

因为,毕竟柏拉图也没有说,这就是我明确相信的观点

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Now I'm giving you my reasons for believing in there're no souls.

现在我要说说,为何我们该相信人没有灵魂。

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And I'm no scientist and I'm no specialist in sort of empirical matters, and believe me, I'm no authority on quantum mechanics, our best theory of fundamental physics.

我不是科学家,也不是实证方面的专家,相信我,关于量子力学,我并没有发言权,那可是基础物理中最经典的理论

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I can't see any good reason to believe premise two, and as far as I can see, Plato doesn't actually give us any reason to believe it in the dialogue.

我找不到什么很好的原因来相信前提二,在我看来,柏拉图在对话录中,也没有给出任何令人信服的理由

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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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Even if there is an immortal soul-- Sorry. Even if there is a non-physical soul that's part of me, we don't yet have any reason to believe that it's one of the fundamental building blocks that were being recycled.

即使灵魂是不灭的,不对,即使有个非现实的灵魂是我的一部分,我们并没有任何理由去相信,灵魂是被循环利用的,基本组成部分之一

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But at least it doesn't seem to be the sort of argument, unlike some of the arguments I've considered last time about oh, nobody believes they're going to die because you can't picture being dead or what have you.

但这至少比我上次思考的，认为没有人相信自己会死，因为你不能想象死亡是什么样子,之类的论据有道理。

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