So, one of the things I've tried to claim in describing Genesis 1 is That in this story evil is represented not as a physical reality.

我在描述《创世纪》第一章中试图做的是,在这个故事中，邪恶并不是一种实体的存在。

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Now, it's not my purpose here to try to argue for or against Platonism with regard to abstract entities.

我的目的不是,试图去辩护或者反对,柏拉图哲学中的抽象实体这个概念

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You need that object to be a substance, to be something.

这个物体得是某种物质，某种实体。

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Well you know what a point is, it's got an x- and a y- coordinate, it's natural to think about those two things as belonging as a single entity.

把这两个坐标认为，是属于一个独立的实体，是理所当然的事情,因此实现这个目的的。

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This idea that I don't really care, or that I don't really think I can come to terms with the actual meaning of an entity as that entity, is instrumentalizing the entity.

我不在乎，或不接受这个观点,它认为一个实体作为实体的意义，在于使实体工具化。

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- She turns to the most salient-- -- and this is the way social psychologists would say it-- -- turns to the most salient object in her immediate social environment-- -- that would be me--and says she's in love.

她转向于最突现的-,社会心理学家会说-,转向于直接社会环境中最突现的实体-,这个实体就是我,并说，她恋爱了。

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Doesn't it follow that a soul, an immaterial entity, can't be destroyed by a material, physical process?

而灵魂这种,无形的实体,是否会遵循这个规律被物质,也就是物理过程摧毁呢

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The person is a body that can do things that most other material objects can't do.

人这个肉体可以做,很多其他物质实体不能做的事

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Basically that the various arguements that might be offered for believing in souls don't seem very compelling upon examinations so there's no good reason to posit this extra entity.

基本上要我们相信灵魂的,不同的理据,都经不住考察,所以我们没有很好的理由,来假设这个额外实体的存在。

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