So, I make various claims of the sort that I've been making about, "Well look, you know, we're just physical objects.

所以，我对我要弄清楚的问题有不同的观点，“你知道，我们只是物体。

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But there are a handful of claims that people make about death suggesting that they think, and they think we all think, that death is mysterious or unique or hard to comprehend.

但是有部分关于死亡的说法,在他们看来，或者他们认为大家都认为，死亡是神秘，特殊，或者难以理解的。

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The idea of falsifiability is that what distinguishes science from non science is that scientific predictions make strong claims about the world and these claims are of a sort that they could be proven wrong.

可证伪性是指,科学与非科学的区别在于,科学能够做出关于世界的有力预测,而这些预测是可以被证伪的。

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Now, that on the one hand is this extraordinary claim that the Greeks make. They did make amazingly powerful claims for human beings as opposed to divinity, compared to any society that I know anything about.

一方面 希腊人有这样如此不同寻常的主张,和我所了解到的其他任何社会相比,他们的确为人类做了很多强有力的辩护,以对抗神明

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