That is a wild assumption, but it's fun to make, because I know pretty well-- I know very well--that people aren't doing this.

这是个大胆的假设，不过有趣的是，因为我很清楚-,我很清楚，人们并不会这么做。

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We can connect it with the fact that God has created humans in his own image, but the God-endowed sanctity of human life is an assumption, and it's the violation of that assumption which makes Cain culpable.

这点可以与上帝按照自己的意愿，造出人类联系起来,但是人类的神圣性，只是一个臆断,如果臆断是真的话,该隐的罪行就违背了这种说法。

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The present value is equal to-- remember it starts one year from now under assumption-- we could do it differently but I'm assuming one year now.

则现值就等于,记住它从现在开始起一年一年的支付,只是个假设,我们能做不同的假设,但现在我就假设成一年

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But notice that that label,personal identity, the problem of personal identity, seems to have built into it the assumption that whatever it is that's me is going to be a person.

但请注意这个标签，个人认同感，个人认同感的问题，似乎是建立在这样一个假设上,无论我是什么，都将是一个人。

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Conversely, if you get an answer and it doesn't seem to make sense, then you've got to go back and ask, am I violating some of the assumptions, and here you will find the assumption that the particle had that acceleration a is true as long it's freely falling under gravity but not when you hit the ground.

反过来说,如果你得到一个结果,发现似乎是错的,那么你就应该回过头来问问自己,我是不是违反某些前提了,这个模型中,你就发现,只要质点在重力作用下自由下落,质点具有加速度a的前提是正确的,但是落地后就不成立了

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