If that is the case, it may be possible that the moon could hold enough water for future explorations or even colonies.

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The fact of the proliferation of possible perspectives is just as important, and I would think it's actually even more important, as any single seemingly proper perspective.

这里关于可能的观点的扩展,也是非常重要的，我个人认为甚至比任何独立的合理观点更为重要。

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How could it even be possible to imagine my mind without my body, if talking about my mind is just a way of talking about my body?

怎能想象自己的心灵独立于身体存在呢,如果心灵只不过是身体的另一种说法

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The regime for him is not one branch of human activity among others it is the fundamental principle or ordering principle that makes all the others even possible.

对他而言,政体并非人类活动的一个分支,而是基本的原则,或说是指导原则,使所有其它学科化作可能,这就是为何。

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Imagine--this didn't, of course, actually happen, but imagine--the crucial point here is simply that we can imagine this story happening, not even that we think it's empirically possible, just it's conceivable, it's an imaginable story.

想象,当然,实际上并没发生,最关键的地方就是想象,故事因此而产生,别去想实际上是否可能发生,只需要一点想象,这是个虚构的故事

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