After all,the problem that fission raises for the personality theory, in a nutshell,is that personalities can split,they can branch.

说到底，人格理论裂变问题的产生，总而言之就是由于人格可以分裂。

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Indeed,the fission example is a very nice case of how you could have splitting for the personality theory.

确实，裂变的例子也是个非常好的,解释人格理论中分裂的例子。

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So,in the fission case,the body says,the body theorist says, in the fission case,there's splitting,there's branching.

在这种裂变的情况下，肉体理论者说，分裂和分支存在的情况下。

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If the body view adds the no branching principle, then we can say,look,in the case of this sort of splitting-- This example is known in the to philosophical literature as fission, like nuclear fission when a big atom splits into two.

如果肉体理论加入无分支原则，我们就能说，在这种分裂的情况下-,这种分裂在哲学文献中叫做裂变，就像原子一分为二的核裂变。

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