"If you ask them whether they will receive a pension and what age, they say "I'm not sure whether I will be in the position of pensioners of today."

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The two passages that I'm about to read juxtapose the viewpoints that I've been trying to evoke in describing Gadamer's position.

我要读的这两篇文章在某些观点上是并行的,我在讲伽达默尔的看法时想激发的就是这些观点。

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So although I'm trying to sketch the dualist position, as I explained on Tuesday, I don't myself believe in souls.

尽管我在尝试去概述,二元论的观点,就像我在周二所说的,我自己并不相信灵魂

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Hobbes, in many ways, finds himself in the position of the young military lawyer played in the following movie clip. I'm going to show you.

很多时候，霍布斯会发现自己,深陷在某种困境里，就像我们马上要看的,这部影片中一位年青军事律师所处的困境一样。

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Now, again, I'm not any kind of scientist and so I'm not in any position to say, "Look, here are the details of the explanation."

我不是什么科学家,所以我没有资格说,看,这个解释的细节就是这样

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Believe me, I'm in no position to say, but that's what I'm told.

记着,我没有资格说,我只不过听别人这么说

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And in that--I'm so careful, perhaps the blocks are numbered, I'm so careful that every block is in the exactly same position as in the case where my son built it.

我搭的非常仔细，也许这些积木都编了号，但我搭的很仔细，所以每块积木,都在我儿子之前搭那座塔时,摆在的位置上。

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Maybe there is a difference there, I don't have a good theory as to what the difference is, since I don't have a good theory to what the difference is, I'm not in a good position to decide whether a reassembled body would be ? the same body or different body?

也许这两个案例是有不同，我没有充分的理论来,解释这两者之间的不同,由于我无法解释两者的不同，我也就无法去下结论,究竟重组的肉体,是原来的肉体还是不一样的肉体？

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