It is--at least, it puts itself out there as a candidate to be an alternative term that one might use if one got tired of saying "irony" or "paradox."

如果“讽刺“，“悖论“一类的词,用的太多,可以用“朦胧“来替换“

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which is a really old-fashioned cinema, and they show alternative films.

是一个老派的电影院，他们放映不同的电影。

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So I think it's a very nice attempt to discuss the physicalist alternative to Plato's dualism.

因此我认为这是个好的尝试,讨论与二元论不同的观点。

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Milton's pushing here toward a fantasy of physical invulnerability imagining an alternative -- this is science fiction an alternative model of bodily configuration that would render impossible the all-too-easy quenching of the tender eyeballs.

弥尔顿在这幻想着人的身体可以刀枪不入,他在想象一个另类的-这只是科幻,他在想象一个另类的身体构造模型,这样脆弱的眼球,就不会轻易受到伤害。

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So that's a good application of the alternative I proposed.

所以我推荐可选择的应用中的一个好的。

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And there is a third alternative.

还有第三个选择。

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An alternative, though, is that there's separate modules, and this is a view developed, again, by Noam Chomsky, and also by the philosopher of mind Jerry Fodor, who claimed that the whole idea of a child developing as a single story is mistaken.

而另一种观点则认为是存在独立模块的,这个观点还是诺姆·乔姆斯基提出的,心灵哲学家杰瑞·福多尔,也同样提出过类似观点,这个观点认为,将儿童发展单独看待的整个观念,都是错误的

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Instead of trying to pursue those alternative theories in a systematic fashion, let me just gesture toward some of the things that seem to be missing from that kind of life.

我们不去系统地研究,那些理论，在此我要例举一些,那种生活似乎所缺少的东西。

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