So the number two, the numbers, three, whatever it is, whatever they are, are these Platonic abstract entities that don't exist in space and time.

因而,数字2,数字3,不管它们是什么,至少它们都是不存在于时空中的,柏拉图式的抽象实体

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You don't want to predicate making complicated gambles under the assumption that they don't exist.

你不会将赌注,押在不可能存在的东西上

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That cells that form tissues often have junctions that hold them together so that they don't fall apart and they exist as a solid piece of tissue.

组织细胞通常通过,细胞连接而联系在一起,所以它们不会分散开来,而保持坚固的组织形态

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Because,indeed,they don't exist They're merely possible And we might say,you've got to exist in order for something to be bad for you But once we say that it seems we're running towards the position that in that case,death can't be bad for me because of course,when I'm dead,I don't exist ? So how can anything be bad for me?

因为他们其实并不存在,他们只是一种可能,我们由此认为你必须首先存在,某事才会让你害怕,但我们一旦这么说,我们似乎会得出这个结论,这种情况下死亡不可能让我害怕,因为我死了就不存在了,所以我怎么会害怕？

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