Reason permits a continuing rational inquiry into the nature of reality.

推理能够对现实的本质,进行持续合理的探究

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That's the nature of reality for Plato.

对柏拉图来说这就是万物的法则

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And the myth has to do with these sort of pictures I was just describing where we don't actually live on the surface of the Earth of in the light, but rather live in certain hollows in the dark where we're mistaken about the nature of reality.

那个传说与我一直形容的,这个大局有关,我们并不真正生活在地表,生活在阳光里,而是生活在某种暗无天日的黑洞中,一个我们都误解了现实本质的地方

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