Or the physicalist can only do a rotten job of explaining, like demon theory did?

或者,物理主义者只能,提供一个很蹩脚的解释,就像恶魔理论那样

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The law code of Hammurabi is available to us and there's a preface to it in which he basically explains why you should obey the rules that he now is laying down for you.

汉莫拉比法典为我们提供了证据,汉莫拉比在法典的前言中向我们解释了,为什么要遵守他颁布的法律

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

What we're justified in believing are those things that we need, not simply when they would offer us some kind of explanation, but when they offer us the best explanation that we can think of.

我们确信我们需要某些东西,不仅在于它们为我们提供了某种解释,还在于它们能使我们,想出的最佳解释

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The Republic is a book about the regime and all later political philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato and that means that it must provide a series of variations so to speak on Plato's conception of the best regime.

理想国》是一本关于政体的书,之后所有的政治哲学都不过是一系列,对柏拉图的批注，也就是说，它必需提供,一系列的差异来解释,柏拉图概念中的最佳政体。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

As a result you have a lot of rural Levites who are out of business now, a lot of people who would have officiated at local shrines, and they're out of business: that probably explains the fact that Deuteronomy makes special provision for the Levites and includes them in its... in legislation, sort of social welfare legislation.

因此许多乡下的利未人丢掉了生计，许多在当地主持地方祭祀的人，也丢掉了生计：这也许解释了为什么,申命记中特别为利未人提供了给养,并把它写进了它的立法中，某种社会福利立法。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So, we need to find another scheme, and that solution was provided for us by G. N. Lewis.

所以我们需要寻找另一个理论来解释，而G。N。Lewis已经提供了答案。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It's a possible explanation.

它也提供了一种可能的解释

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选