to a strategy of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. The central premise of counterinsurgency is to win hearts and minds and weaken popular support for the insurgents.

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I want to move on to the fourth premise, one of the most important premises in this course.

我想进入第四个前提，这堂课最重要的一个前提。

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The premise of the commercial is "Can GEICO insure you in any such situation?"

广告的前提是“在什么情况下GEICO都能给你保险吗？”

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He makes it clear that utility is the only standard of morality, in his view, so he's not challenging Bentham's premise. He's affirming it.

明确指出功利是道德的唯一标准，在他看来，他并没有质疑边沁的前提，而是肯定此观点。

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While I'm busy pointing out ways in which the argument doesn't succeed, I also want to just take a moment and mention that premise two is also subject to criticism.

当我竭力指出,为什么这种论证无法成功时,我也想要花点时间,顺便说说前提二也不能免于批评

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One's from Burger King and one is from KFC, and when I show these to you-- we'll talk a lot about food marketing in the United States, because if you buy the premise that I laid out a few moments ago, that what we consider food and what we consider to taste good is pretty much a total social construction.

一个是汉堡王的,一个是肯德基的,在我播放这两个广告的同时,我们要讲下美国的食物市场营销策略,因为如果你买了我之前出的那本提纲,其中讲到了我们对待食物的态度,我们,判定食物好吃与否的标准是种社会意识

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I want to end this premise idea by talking a little bit about a person for whom, one of the chief purpose in life was to spread happiness-- Mahatma Gandhi. This is a story about him.

我想以介绍一位,一生致力于，传播快乐的人来结论这个前提-,圣雄甘地，这是关于他的一个故事。

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Still, granted the premise, if you can't picture it or imagine it, you can't believe in it-- Should we conclude, therefore, that you can't believe you're going to be dead?

但让我们仍然基于，无法想象的东西是不能相信的这个前提-,我们就该得出，人不能相信自己的死亡,这一结论吗？

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