All right. We've been talking about arguments that might give us reason to believe in the existence of an immaterial soul.

我们已经讨论了,那些让我们相信,灵魂存在的论证

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I don't think we got any good reason to believe that soul existed before we were born.

我认为没什么好的理由让我们相信,灵魂在我们出生前就已存在。

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What makes it believable as an account of, again, ? the condition we are naturally in?

是什么使它变得让我们相信，我们是自然而然身处于这种状态之中？

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So, we are now going to do one standard problem where we will convince ourselves we can apply this formulas and predict the future given the present.

我们接下来将去研究一个标准问题,通过这个问题,我们能让自己相信,我们能利用这些式子,根据现状,预测未来

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So, Sal is convinced--he wants to be convinced; he desperately wants to be convinced--that Mississippi Gene knows Big Slim Hazard. Let's look at another example on page 59.

所以萨尔信服了，他想要被说服;,他极其渴望被说服，很愿意相信吉恩,认识细杆哈查德，让我们来看59页上的例子。

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Paradise Lost as a whole clearly wants us to believe that God has foreknowledge and it also clearly wants us to believe that we have free will, but the similes seem just as often to open up and to question the poem's doctrinal conclusions.

整体来说很清楚地是想让我们相信,上帝具有先知的能力,并且还想让我们相信人生来有自由的意志，但是这些比喻看起来只是为我们揭露,并质疑了诗歌本身的学理上的总结。

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Let's suppose that in order to believe in something, you've got to be able to picture it.

让我们先假设要相信一件事，这件事必须是可以被想象的。

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Still, granted the premise, if you can't picture it or imagine it, you can't believe in it-- Should we conclude, therefore, that you can't believe you're going to be dead?

但让我们仍然基于，无法想象的东西是不能相信的这个前提-,我们就该得出，人不能相信自己的死亡,这一结论吗？

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Now,let's suppose we believe the personality theory of personal identity.

让我们假设相信个人认同感的人格理论。

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You might ask though,is there some other behavior, something else that should tip us off,could tip us off, as to whether or not we really do or don't believe that we're going to die?

你可能会问，有没有其他行为，能够让我们突然醒悟，知道我们真正是否相信自己会死呢？

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Well,in the same way,if we could find some behavior on our part that calls out for explanation, that the best possible explanation would be that at some level we don't believe we're going to die, then we might say,look, this gives us some reason to think that we don't really believe we're going to die, even though we say we believe it.

同样，如果我们发现自己有些行为有待解释，这最好的解释可能就是,在某种程度上，我们不相信自己会死，然后我们说，看，这让我们有理由相信，我们并不相信我们会死，即使我们口头上说相信。

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It's natural to talk that way, but if we want belief in the soul to help us hold out the possibility at least that there might be life after death, then I think we need to actually say that strictly speaking, it's not that a person is a soul plus a body.

这说起来很轻松,如果我们想要寄托于,相信灵魂的存在,而让死后能够继续活着有据可依,那么我们需要一个严格的说法,不是说一个人是灵魂加肉体

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