Okay? So when you say that what you're doing is scientific in a context of this sort, you are making yourself vulnerable.

对吧？，所以在这种情况下你说自己所做的是科学的时,你就使自己站不住脚了。

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It's the view that probably most of you believe, but again, it's worth noting that philosophically it can be challenged.

这是一种我们大多数人都相信的观点,但是再一次的,需要指出,从哲学讲它是站不住脚的

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If it's a bad argument, then Locke's given us a mere rationalization that isn't morally defensible.

如果他的观点是错的，那么洛克的辩护,只是看似合理，但在道义上站不住脚。

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As I say though, Plato may well recognize the inadequacy of that argument, because after all Socrates goes on to offer a series of other arguments.

柏拉图本身,可能已经认识到这个观点站不住脚,因为苏格拉底,还提供了一系列其他的观点

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And unsurprisingly-- since I announced this was going to be the result before the class had barely gotten started-- I don't think any of these arguments work.

我在课程还没正式开始的时候,就已经说过了,我认为这些论证都站不住脚

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Well again, I can say the words, but when I try to imagine that possibility and take it seriously, at least speaking personally, it doesn't--it doesn't hold up.

我能说出这种假设，但当我想象那种可能性,并严肃考究时，起码就我而言，它也站不住脚。

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And each one of the premises can be challenged.

而这里的每一个前提都可能站不住脚

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