But in the science fiction story where there's a duplicate,it says, if there's branching,the no branching rule comes in.

但在科幻作品里，复制的案例是存在的，分裂出现时，在无分支的规定下。

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There's no language in the world that has a rule that says the fifth word has to be a verb.

世界上并没有语言规定,说第五个词必须是动词

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But in absolute states, there's no doubt who rules and who helps rule.

但是,在绝对主义的国家里,谁是统治者谁是帮手,这是不容置疑的

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So although the personality with no branching rule avoids the problem of what to say about duplicates, by saying when there's branching,neither of them is Shelly Kagan, the branching rule itself seems very counter-intuitive.

所以纵然带有无分支规定的人格理论,避开了关于复制的问题，说当出现分支时，Shelly，Kagan就不复存在了，这个无分支规定本身就很反直觉。

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There's no rule about how you're supposed to use the word "Language."

因为并没有什么,关于应当如何运用"语言"一词的规定

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