Can't my mind take off from there and push straight ahead to the idea of the perfectly straight, even if I never have encountered it before?

即使我之前没有直接碰到过,难道我的心灵不能借此来推断出,完美的直线是什么样子的吗

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Taking the problem, recognizing that you know what, 8 even though this is a pretty big problem size 8 in this case and last time it was size 8 or in the case of the papers in size of a thousand roughly with the phonebook, I assume these are in a perfectly straight line they won't quite fit.

以这个问题为例，你们要认识到，在这种情况下，这是个比较大的问题，其大小是,上次它的大小也是8，但在纸片那个问题中,电话簿的规模大概是上千的，现在假设这些,杯子完全在同一条直线上，虽然并不十分符合这个条件。

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One question is this: Is it really true that in order to think about the perfectly straight, I must have somehow, somewhere at some point come up against, had direct knowledge of, the perfectly straight?

一个问题是,难道真的说,为了想象一条完美的直线,我必须,在某处直接碰到,并直接了解一条完美的直线吗

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