That's something that only the mind can think about, that we don't actually have in the world, the empirical world itself.

那仅仅是心灵可以设想的东西,而在现实的经验世界中,却是不可能存在的

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It's an argument that doesn't seem to have any empirical premises; it works from purely armchair philosophical reflection.

这是一个没有任何经验前提的论证,它完全只是躺在椅子上对哲学的思考得出

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We all do believe something makes it true that two plus one equals three, but it's not the fact that empirical objects-- We don't do empirical experiments to see whether two plus one equals three.

我们都相信有些东西,使2加1等于3是正确的,但这不是说现实的东西,我们不会在现实中做实验,去看看二加一是不是等于三

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