Gadamer says, and here again he's attacking historicism: The text that is understood historically is forced to abandon its claim that it is uttering something true.

伽达默尔在攻击历史相对主义时这样说道：,文本如果放在历史的角度理解,那么这样的理解肯定不是绝对正确的。

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And Descartes said, "Boy, these machines respond in certain ways to certain actions so machines can do certain things," and in fact, he says, "Our bodies work that way too.

因此笛卡尔说,"天呐,这些机器可以对特定的动作,做出特定的反应,原来机器也是可以完成某些动作的",实际上,他说道,"我们的身体也是这样运作的

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It can't be that what's going on in near-death experiences is that people are reporting about what it's like to be dead because-- so the objection says-- they never really died.

人们所说的自身死亡时,所产生的濒死体验,是绝对不可能发生的,因为,这种反驳这样说道,他们没有真正死掉

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