And the way you show respect for a philosopher is by taking those arguments seriously and asking yourself, do they work or not?

因此对一位哲学家表示尊敬的方式应该是,认真地对待他们的论证,并且问你自己,那些论证是否说的通

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It's important to realize--as you read the dialogue, it becomes fairly apparent-- that there isn't so much any defense of the belief in the soul.

值得注意的是,当你们读这篇对话时,会发现里面并没有,多少篇幅很明显地,论证灵魂的存在

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So I'm going to run through a series of these arguments.

我先简单地说一下,这一系列的论证

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All right. Let's look at this again more carefully.

我们再把这个论证更仔细地看一遍

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These are not names that Plato gives, but it will make it easy for us to get a fix, roughly, on the different arguments as we move from one to the next.

这些名字不是柏拉图起的,但是这能方便我们,在逐一推进的时候粗略地了解一下,这些不同论证的定义

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So if we were to spell out the argument somewhat more fully, it might be, "We have free will, but you can't both have free will and be subject to determinism or subject to deterministic laws."

因此我们要更完整地阐述这个论证的话,它应该是,人有自由意志,但人不能既有自由意志,又遵从决定论 或服从确定性的定律

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And then, having given the counter example That is to say, what I'm going to give is an example of an argument just like it, or at least an argument that seems to be just like it where we can pretty easily see that that argument doesn't work.

在给了这个反例之后,也就是说,我要给一个,与之相似的论证的例子,或者至少看起来,与之类似的一个论证,我们能够很容易地看到,那个论证是不正确的

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