"Especially for us as Africans, despite all these accusations, let us celebrate his success and forget about other accusations which in most cases were found to be not necessarily true,".

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For those people who say "Yeah, van Inwagen was right about the tower and the same thing will be true about the watch."

还有些人认为,范·，因瓦根说的没错,手表那个例子中,他说的没错“

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We are honoring instead the integrity of what they're saying without thinking about whether or not it might be true.

我们事实上反而在,尊重他们所说内容的真实性,却从未想过这到底是不是真的。

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We have to think about how is it,how could it be true, that death is bad for the person that dies?

我们需要想清楚为什么死亡，会对死者本身造成坏处？

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When I think about that case,I say,True, we'll just stipulate that will be me in 700 years.

当我想到这案例的时候，我说，是的，就算700年后我还是我。

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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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