In the preface to his largest book, the Discourses on Livy, he compares himself to Christopher Columbus for his discovery of what he calls " "new modes and orders."

在他最大一部著作，《论利瓦伊》的序言中，他将自己和哥伦布相比,因为他发现,其所谓的，“新模式与秩序“

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So van Inwagen concludes, if you have an object, and you take it apart, and then put them all back together again, you don't have the very same object that you started out with.

所以范·，因瓦根总结道，如果你将拥有的物体拆开，再把所有的零件重组，你手上的并非,原来的那个物体。

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