At the end of last class I suggested that from here on I'm going to be assuming that there's no soul.

上一节课的最后,我说了从现在开始,我假定灵魂是不存在的。

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So, you end up going through life assuming that there are no black swans.

于是你从生活中得出结论,黑色的天鹅是不存在的

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This is another thing to notice. He's not just making us experience Lolita's name the way he does; he's assuming that there are certain kinds of questions that we will ask. "Did she have a precursor?"

这也值得注意，他不仅让我们体会,他感知到的Lolita的名字，他想象出了,我们可能会提出的问题，在她之前还有别人吗“

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I think that there's a problem here with that we're assuming that a person has self possession when they live in a society.

我觉得这样的假定是有问题的,假定一个人生活在社会中,也能完全拥有自主权。

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Another way of saying that, stop me if this is wrong, but one way to say that is we've been assuming that politics is one dimensional, left/right and there might be other things involved: character or even among issues, even among political issues it could be more than one dimension.

换句话说就是,如果我说错了请纠正,换种说法就是,我们把政治假定为单一维度的,非左即右,然而它还涉及其他方面,比如性格问题,即使政治事务的处理也不是单一维度的

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