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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And the family of arguments that we're considering initially are arguments that get known as inference or inferences to the best explanation.

我们首先会想到的一类,则是那种,被称作推理的论证,或叫做,最佳解释推理

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It's a matter of inference, not just to any old explanation, but inference to the best explanation.

这是逻辑推论的结果,不是随便什么陈旧的解释,而是最佳解释的推论结果

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Here we might then have an entire other family of arguments, set of arguments--again, still of the form "Inference to the best explanation."

这里我们就有了全新的一类论证,一系列的论证,但仍需遵循,"最佳解释推理"

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Here's another version of an argument that goes from inference to the best explanation.

这是某个论证,从推理发展为最佳解释的另一种说法

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This pattern of argument, which is ubiquitous, is called "Inference to the best explanation."

这种论证模式,十分普遍,被称为,最佳解释推理

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It would be an example of "Inference to the best explanation."

这可以作为一个,最佳解释推论的例子

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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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