Mwangura,whose claim can not be verified, told VOA the pirates may not be telling the truth when they deny the existence of the arms.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

It's a truth claim of some kind--right?

在某种意义上说，这是一种真理，是吧？

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Thus, this acknowledgment of the otherness of the other, which makes him the object of objective knowledge, involves the fundamental suspension of his claim to truth.

因此，承认他者的相异性，使之成为客观知识的对象，涉及到从根本上中止对知识的追求。

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It was becoming absolutely impossible, in fact, or at least much, much harder, to claim that there was a single expression of religious truth to which the English nation could consensually subscribe.

实际上，这是绝对不可能的，至少也是很难断言称,这种宗教真理是,整个英国都能勉强赞同的。

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and so I trust that it's easily intelligible as I read it to you now.] In fact, however, we have given up the claim to find, in the past, any truth valid and intelligible for ourselves.

所以我相信现在我读的时候大家一定会更容易理解],事实上，我们已经放弃了从过去中寻找,对于自己来说靠得住的，可以理解的事实。

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