And if you disagree with that, you must believe in the principle of self possession.

不同意这一点的，你肯定相信自我拥有的原则。

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Yet other voices within the tradition--Plato Machiavelli Rousseau come to mind -believed that regimes can be self-consciously founded through deliberate acts of great statesmen or founding fathers as we might call them.

但传统中的其它声音，像柏拉图,马奇亚维利，鲁索却相信,政体可以透过自我意识建立,藉由伟大政治家的谨慎举动,我们也称这些人为国父。

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One way to think about Nash equilibria is that they are self-enforcing agreements, so provided that everyone believes that everyone is going to go along with this agreement, then everyone in fact will.

我们可以这样理解纳什均衡,把它们想象成自我实施的协议,假设每个人都相信,大家都会遵守协议,那么大家就都会遵守

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