And I should say at the outset-- I'm going to prejudice your listening here just a little bit.

首先我得说件事,我要耽误一下你们听音乐的时间

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I should mention that the very first reading that you're going to be doing is a couple of pages from Jay Rosenberg, a contemporary philosopher.

我想说你们首先,要阅读的是,杰·罗森伯格所写的文章,一个当代哲学家

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And she just shook her head and she said, "Peter, Peter, Peter. You know that effect only works " if I think you're competent first."

她摇了摇头，无奈地说，“彼特，彼特，彼特，，你知道要达到这个效果,首先我得认为你能干“

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First, though, I need to say a couple of words about the word chastity as I've been using it throughout the discussion so far of Comusboth today and Monday.

首先我要就贞节这个词说几句,鉴于我在今天和周一课上有关《科玛斯》的,讨论中一直在使用这个词。

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In other words, we said that in intellectual history, first you get this movement of concern about the distance between the perceiver and the perceived, a concern that gives rise to skepticism about whether we can know things as they really are.

换言之，我们曾说过在思想史上，首先你要知道,关注感知者和被感知者之间距离的运动，这种关注会让我们怀疑,自己是否弄清楚了事物的本来面目。

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