We've been talking about the question, What arguments might be offered for the existence of a soul?
我们一直在讨论这样一个问题,用什么论证可以证明灵魂的存在
Now, in answer to your question, " I think this proves that or I won't say "Proves."
再来回答你的问题,我认为这证明了,不该用“证明“
In other words, my belief-- and I am going to back that up with research today and for the next semester-- is human nature is fixed.
换言之,那是我相信的观点-,我会用三个研究加以证明,从今天开始,直到下个学期-,人类本性是固有的。
And so, Descartes' attempt to establish the distinctness of the mind, the immateriality of the mind, on the basis of this Cartesian thought experiment, I think that's unsuccessful.
所以,笛卡尔试图,用他的卡式思想实验来证明,心灵的独立存在性,和非物质性,我认为这种尝试是失败的
You have to show people it can be done.
你要用行动证明这件事能够完成。
As I say, red tends to be chosen, but then if you get lab experiments showing that that particular color of gas blue is somehow or another sort of more invasive of your consciousness than red is, then you move away from the arbitrariness of the choice of red as a color.
所以人们就倾向于选择红灯,但是如果你想用实验证明,比如说烟蓝色或者,其他任何另一种颜色比红色更加醒目,那么你就忽视了颜色选择上的任意性。
It didn't have to be that way.
其实并不用那样去证明
In the case of Michael Jordan, some... I mean, to illustrate your point.
以迈克尔·乔丹为例。,我是说,用他来证明你的观点。
That doesn't prove that the argument fails, but it does mean that you're going to have your work cut out for you if you're going to use this route to arguing for the existence of a soul.
但这并不表明这个论证就不成立,而它确实意味着,如果你要用这种途径,来证明灵魂存在的话,你需要有人帮你解答疑团
You prove to your teacher that you understand the authors by being able to put their meaning in other words -in other words, to say the author is intending to say something, not just that the text says something and this is what it says, with your exam then being one long screed of quotation.
你们用自己的话写出文章的含义,以此向老师证明你们理解作者的意图,换句话说,要告诉老师作者想表达什么,而不仅仅是文本说的什么内容,然后在试卷上来一大段,冗长的引用。
We prove things in mathematics that have never been proven before or we find new ways to prove these theorems or what have you and we can be creative.
我们用数学去证明从未被证明过的事物,我们探寻新的方法去证明那些定理,或其他诸如此类,总之,我们具有创造力
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