And the family of arguments that we're considering initially are arguments that get known as inference or inferences to the best explanation.

我们首先会想到的一类,则是那种,被称作推理的论证,或叫做,最佳解释推理

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It's an everyday occurrence that we can think and reason and feel and be creative, or choose otherwise and have free will.

我们能思考推理,感知创造,或能做出不同的选择,拥有自由意志,都是每天存在的事

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For reason, he writes in a famous passage, "for reason is nothing but reckoning, that is adding and subtracting the consequences of general names agreed upon."

对理性而言，他在一个著名的段落中写到，“推理就是一种计算，也就是将公认为标示或表明思想的,普通名词所构成的序列相加减“

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