All I'm saying is that if someday we found that, at that point,we'd have an argument for the soul.

我要说的是，如果有一日我们发现这种情况，那时候才会有灵魂存在的论据。

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And if that's true, then of course, we no longer have an argument for the indestructibility or nearly indestructibility of the soul.

而如果那是对的，当然我们就,不能再论证灵魂的不可摧毁性,或者几乎不可摧毁性。

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You don't have to do it in the paper, but it should be an argument that has something to say back to those obvious things.

你们不需要在论文里这样做，但是争论中应该,存在一些东西是关于那些明显的事情的。

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That's been an argument that some commentators have made.

这是一些评论家所提出的论点。

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And if that's an appealing argument that you have to be in an altered mindset to do something like that, it suggests that people who find that argument convincing do think that they were acting immorally.

而如果只能用这样的辩词,说只有人精神状况不正常，才会干出那种事，这也就意味着，那些觉得该论证有说服力的人们,其实是认为他们行为是不道德的。

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Boom, we'd have an argument for the existence of a soul.

于是,我们就有了一个灵魂存在的论证

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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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