According to the soul-theory argument for soul, rather,according to the argument for souls, you needed to believe in souls in order to explain how you could have a person.

根据灵魂理论的说法，或宁可说是灵魂作用的说法，人需要相信灵魂的存在才能解释作为人的存在。

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Although I am skeptical about that claim, I am going to continue giving it to the person who makes this argument, because I'm not so prepared to admit that you can't picture being dead.

虽然我本身对这个说法表示怀疑，我还是要继续,依照提出的这个论点，因为我还没有准备好承认,人无法想象死亡这件事。

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But Socrates ultimately wants to replace military combat with a new kind of you might call it verbal facility verbal combat in which again the person with the best argument is declared to be victorious.

但苏格拉底最终想要,取代军事战斗的是一种新型的,言辞技能，言辞战斗,最佳辩论者,将被宣布为优胜者。

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The question of the relationship between the person and the aesthetic in Lolita is going to be at the heart of my overarching argument about the novel.

而这个男人和《Lolita》的美二者关系,将成为我们探讨这部小说的,主要核心。

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