The kinds of arguments we have been considering so far all fall under the general rubric of "Inference to the best explanation."

目前为止 我们讨论的这些论证,都是在 "最佳解释推理",这个一般准则下进行的的

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What about the fact that-- We said there's a family of arguments, all of which have the general structure, inference to the best explanation, you need souls in order to explain feature F. Plug in a different feature F and you get a new argument.

这个事实怎么样,我们说过有一大类观点,它们有一些共同的结构,有关于这个最佳解释的推论,需要用灵魂的概念,来解释功能特征F,代入一个不同的,功能特征就会得到一个新的论点

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