It's not necessarily chronological, but at the same time it gives you a sense of successive metaphysical philosophers thinking about first causes, origins, and about whatever it is that determines everything else.

这不一定是按时间顺序排列的，但同时,它会给你一种感觉那就是，一位又一位形而上学哲学家,思考原动力，起源，思考到底是什么觉定了其他的一切。

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That's the metaphysical thesis that Socrates comes to by thinking about cases.

这就是苏格拉底通过思考例子,得出的形而上学的论点。

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