But what we seem to be justified in believing is not just any old explanation, but the "Best explanation."

但是,我们认为正确并坚信着的,不是某些随便的陈旧解释,而是,最佳解释

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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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And we're going to talk about the best modern theories as to why these syndromes occur.

我们将讨论最佳的现代理论,来解释这些综合症产生的原因

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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。

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The kinds of arguments we have been considering so far all fall under the general rubric of "Inference to the best explanation."

目前为止 我们讨论的这些论证,都是在 "最佳解释推理",这个一般准则下进行的的

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And when I review these various arguments, I come away thinking the better explanation falls with the physicalist.

所以当我考察各种论证时,我不会说最佳解释肯定是,物理主义的

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It's a matter of inference, not just to any old explanation, but inference to the best explanation.

这是逻辑推论的结果,不是随便什么陈旧的解释,而是最佳解释的推论结果

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And to what extent are they best explained in terms of an interaction?

在多大的程度上这些区别,可以从相互作用的角度得到最佳的解释

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Here we might then have an entire other family of arguments, set of arguments--again, still of the form "Inference to the best explanation."

这里我们就有了全新的一类论证,一系列的论证,但仍需遵循,"最佳解释推理"

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Here's another version of an argument that goes from inference to the best explanation.

这是某个论证,从推理发展为最佳解释的另一种说法

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This pattern of argument, which is ubiquitous, is called "Inference to the best explanation."

这种论证模式,十分普遍,被称为,最佳解释推理

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Inference to the best explanation" is not a single argument for the soul.

最佳解释的推论,并不仅仅是关于灵魂的一个论证

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It would be an example of "Inference to the best explanation."

这可以作为一个,最佳解释推论的例子

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Hence, inference to the best explanation.

因此,这是一个最佳解释推理

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I want to emphasize the point that the various arguments that I have been talking about so far, although they have this common strand-- "Inference to the best explanation"-- are each separate and distinct arguments.

强调一点,到现在为止,我提及的各种论据,尽管它们都是,最佳解释的推论,但每一个都是独立而分明的

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I want to emphasize this bit about "Best explanation."

关于最佳解释,我想强调一点

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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

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The best explanation appeals to the soul."

而最佳的解释是诉诸灵魂的

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but, "Is it the best explanation?"

而是,那是最佳的解释吗

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What about the fact that-- We said there's a family of arguments, all of which have the general structure, inference to the best explanation, you need souls in order to explain feature F. Plug in a different feature F and you get a new argument.

这个事实怎么样,我们说过有一大类观点,它们有一些共同的结构,有关于这个最佳解释的推论,需要用灵魂的概念,来解释功能特征F,代入一个不同的,功能特征就会得到一个新的论点

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