I think they should actually show us a little bit more about how we can understand the organization of the things around us and within us as systems of signs.

我认为这个问题值得继续思考,我们怎样认识我们周围的事物？,我们怎样认识周围的符号系统。

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We feel as we process the world around us that we know things for and as what they are.

我们觉得我们认识的事物,都是事物真实的本质。

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Not only should one seek peace but we have an obligation, he says, to lay down our arms, to lay down our right to all things on the condition that others around us are prepared to do so as well.

我们不仅是应该寻求和平,还有义务来放下自己的武器，在周围的人准备同样作的情况之下,放弃我们对一切事物的权利。

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