Blair's very vocal critics are lining up. Opposition Conservative politician and member of the Intelligence and Security committee Richard Ottaway says it appears that the most significant foreign affairs initiative Britain has dealt with since the WWII was argued and debated on a false premise and that he says that raises profound constitutional questions.

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Premise 2: To be a practical idealist, the foundation of it has to be the belief that change is possible.

第二前提：,作为一个实际的理想主义者，它的基础必须是,相信改变是可能的。

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Again. Basic premise of binary search, or at least we set it up was, imagine I have a sorted list of elements. We get, in a second, to how we're going to get them sorted, and I want to know, is a particular element in that list..

好，二分查找的基本前提，或者是我们建立二分查找的基础,我们已经有了一个排好序的元素列表，我们就需要知道如何来快速的排序,如何从列表中找到特定的元素。

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I believe that and why do we need to have it as a basic premise of the course, '?" as opposed to change is illusive?"

我相信这一点，但为什么我们需要把它,作为课程的基本前提，而不说'改变是虚幻的“

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While I'm busy pointing out ways in which the argument doesn't succeed, I also want to just take a moment and mention that premise two is also subject to criticism.

当我竭力指出,为什么这种论证无法成功时,我也想要花点时间,顺便说说前提二也不能免于批评

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So you cannot use the formula once it hits the ground because once it hits the ground, the fundamental premise that a was a constant of -9.8 or -10 is wrong.

当物体落地以后,该公式就不适用了,因为当物体落地后,公式的基本前提——,加速度为常数-9.8或-10——就不成立了

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One's from Burger King and one is from KFC, and when I show these to you-- we'll talk a lot about food marketing in the United States, because if you buy the premise that I laid out a few moments ago, that what we consider food and what we consider to taste good is pretty much a total social construction.

一个是汉堡王的,一个是肯德基的,在我播放这两个广告的同时,我们要讲下美国的食物市场营销策略,因为如果你买了我之前出的那本提纲,其中讲到了我们对待食物的态度,我们,判定食物好吃与否的标准是种社会意识

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The final and the fifth premise is an important one; is a philosophical one but one I want to introduce at the beginning of the course so that you understand where I am coming from, where this course is coming from-- because many people say, "Ok, so happiness is important.

最后也是第五个前提很重要;,是一个哲学前提,但我想在课程开始时介绍,你们好理解我讲课的起源，这门课程的来源-,因为很多人说，好的，快乐是重要的。

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