He spoke about, and I like to claim this approach, the position of scholarship to which we call the Higher Naivete.

他是这么说的,我觉得这种方式很好,这是一种叫做"高级天真"的研究方法

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Okay, be warned; I'm a practitioner of the higher naivete.

好了,注意,鄙人就是"高级天真"的实践者

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You believe everything. Next, you get a college education and you don't believe anything, and then you reach the level of wisdom, the Higher Naivete, and you know what to believe even though you can't prove it.

你会相信眼前的一切,然后你接受大学教育,这时你又开始怀疑一切了,最后你将达到,"高级天真"的智者境界,这时即使没有证据,你也会去相信

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Having learned, or having agreed, let's say, with my prejudice, which is that the Higher Naivete must reign -and if the Greeks said it happened, you got to believe it happened, until you have to believe that it didn't happen.

以我的成见,他已经达到或认同,"高级天真",如果古希腊人说确有其事,你要相信它确实发生,除非你不得不相信它其实并未发生过

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