Because if you choose Alpha, the best case scenario is you get 0, So that's okay good, that's a good counter argument.

因为要是你选α,你最多只能得0,很好,这是个不错的反驳理由

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And it's this final movement of the simile, according to this ingenious argument by Geoffrey Hartman, that Hartman calls the counter-plot.

根据哈特曼灵巧的论点看来，这就是这个比喻最后的深意，他称之为反计。

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And I think the example of the Evening Star and the Morning Star-- which is not at all original to me-- that this example shows, this counter example shows, that Descartes' original argument doesn't work either.

而且我认为晨星,和昏星的例子,这不是我原创的,这个例子说明,这个反例说明了,笛卡尔的原来的那个论证也行不通

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And then, having given the counter example That is to say, what I'm going to give is an example of an argument just like it, or at least an argument that seems to be just like it where we can pretty easily see that that argument doesn't work.

在给了这个反例之后,也就是说,我要给一个,与之相似的论证的例子,或者至少看起来,与之类似的一个论证,我们能够很容易地看到,那个论证是不正确的

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