If you want it to take a so-called argument or a parameter, there's a subtle semantic distinction between arguments and parameter, but for all intents and purposes, they're the same thing.

如果你想要你的函数携带参数或,参量，这里有一个微妙的语义差别在,参数和参量之中，但是为了所有的意图,和目的，他们作用是一样的。

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There's another argument descartes could have made that's a lot less subtle than the ones he did make, which is "That thing responsible for free will and love and consciousness?

笛卡尔本可以指出一个,比他所举论据,更为巧妙的论据,也就是,"这东西会是引起自由意志,爱恋,与意识的原因吗

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