Is there some feature that the physicalist can't explain and so we need to appeal to something extra-physical to explain it?

是否存在物理主义者不能解释的这种特性,使得我们不得不诉诸于,某些超物理的东西来解释

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Or perhaps, you could be trying to explain that you don't know whether you can do something or not by a certain date.

又或者，你正在试图解释你没法确定你是否能在一个指定日期前做完某件事。

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Sometimes, we posit the existence of something that we can't see so as to explain something else that we all agree takes place.

有时,我们通过假设,存在某些,我们看不到的事物以解释另一些,我们一致认同存在着的事物

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I can't explain this because classical physics doesn't work at atomic dimensions.

我不能解释这个,因为经典物理在不适用,就原子尺度而言。

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You want to use the "so ~ that" pattern to help you explain why you can or can't do something.

使用 “so ~ that”句型可以帮助你解释你能够或者不能够做某事的原因。

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Let's look at some patterns that will explain in more detail how we can use the "I can't" pattern.

下面让我们来看一些句型，它们会更具体地解释我们应如何使用“I can't”句型。

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You can explain to the waiter that he has made a mistake by using the "I didn't" pattern.

你想跟服务员解释，他弄错了。你就可以使用“I didn't”句型。

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But not yet seeing how to explain it is not the same thing as seeing that it can't be explained on physicalist terms.

但是不知道,怎么解释并不等于,不能用物理主义解释

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But people have a very special ability"-- and so the argument goes-- "That mere bodies couldn't have, physicalists can't explain. That's the ability to think.

但人类有一种特殊的技能,于是论证得以延续,纯粹的肉体无法拥有,物理主义者不能解释的技能,即思考

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We can't explain it in terms of, in purely physical terms.

但单从物理的角度,我们无法对其进行解释

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We'll decide you can't explain consciousness in physical terms.

我们会认定,无法从物理的角度来解释意识

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Can we explain why the ones that do break down break down and the ones that don't break down don't break down?

我们能解释,为什么那个分裂了的原子分裂了,而没分裂的原子没有分裂吗

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The problem is that the theory of the day can't explain it.

问题是当时没有理论解释这一点。

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We make inferences to the existence of things we can't see, when doing that helps us to explain something we can't otherwise explain.

我们推断一些看不到的事物的存在,因为这样做可以便于我们,解释某些我们不相信就无法解释的事情

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And if the best the soul theorist can say is, "I can't explain it and neither can you," that's not a reason to believe this side.

如果灵魂理论者最多只能说,我不能解释,你也不能,这不是一个相信灵魂存在的理由

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If we could find the right F, and make out the argument, the physicalist can't explain it or does a bad job of explaining it and the dualist does a better job of explaining it, we'd have reason to believe in the soul.

如果我们能找到合适的特性F,并且给出论证,物理主义者无法解释,或者解释得很牵强,而二元论的解释更合理,那么我们就有理由相信有灵魂存在

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And if the best that the soul theorist has is, "Maybe we need this to explain something that I don't see how you guys can explain, maybe this would help, though I can't quite see how either," that's not a very compelling argument.

如果灵魂主义者最为充分的理由是,或许我们需要灵魂来解释些,我认为你们不能解释的东西,或许这样能有些帮助,尽管我也不清楚怎样用灵魂解释,这就不是一个很有说服力的论证

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