Maybe we should say, the mere fact that it's possible for A and B to be separate--for A to exist without B for example, that's clearly where they're separate-- the mere fact that it's possible for them to be separate doesn't mean that in the actual world they are separate.

也许我们应该说,A和B有可能不同,比如 可能A存在,而B不存在,这是它们明显的不同之处,它们有可能不同,并不意味着,在现实世界它们也是不同的

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It's a positive force, and it exerts an actual and somehow palpable, discernible force in the world.

它是一种积极的力量，它在世界上发挥一种实际的，某种可感知可识别的作用。

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Building real world educational source ware And communications technologies And applying them with actual learners.

建立真实世界的教育资源软件,和通讯技术,并应用到学习者身上。

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So that we can talk about things being beautiful to varying degrees, but we never come across beauty itself in the actual empirical world.

我们可以探讨,事物的不同程度的美丽,但是我们从不在现实世界中,直接碰到"美丽"这个东西

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Whereas most utterances purport to be saying something true about the actual state of things in the world, literary utterance is under no such obligation, the argument goes, and ought properly to be understood as fiction making it up as opposed to referring.

大多数言辞都是对事物的真实状况的,真实反映，而这种观点认为，文学没有这个义务，应该把文学理解为小说,它是虚构而不是实指。

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