And what's amazing about the argument is that it works on the basis of a pure thought experiment.

这个论证令人吃惊的就是,它完全只靠思想实验

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So, every philosopher or psychologist or humanist or neuroscientist who has ever thought about people has had to make some claim about the nature of language and how it works.

因此,无论是哲学家,心理学家,人类学家,还是神经系统学家,只要他们曾经研究过人类,便会就语言的特性及其功能提出某些理论

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We implicitly demand of expository texts," he goes on to say -and he may be alluding to Gadamer here because after all Gadamer is talking primarily about expository text, works of philosophy, works of social thought, which of course aren't trying to surprise or trick us.

我们暗中希望能得到解释的文本“，他接着说下去,而且他可能在这里提到葛达玛,因为毕竟葛达玛主要研究解释性作品，哲学作品，社会思想作品，这些当然不会试图去令我们惊讶或者是误导我们。

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