So although I'm trying to sketch the dualist position, as I explained on Tuesday, I don't myself believe in souls.

尽管我在尝试去概述,二元论的观点,就像我在周二所说的,我自己并不相信灵魂

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I announced on the first day of class that I don't, myself, believe in the existence of a soul.

第一节课上,我就声明,本人并不相信灵魂的存在

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I can't bring myself to believe it, I have some sympathies for valuable container theories, but I also have some sympathy for neutral container theories.

我无法让自己去相信它，我有点赞同有价值容器理论，但是我也有点赞同中性容器理论。

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Well--since I myself don't believe in souls, it's hard to surprise you to learn that I don't think the soul theory of personal identity is right.

因为我本身不相信灵魂的存在，所以你们肯定能想到,我认为人格同一性的灵魂论,不是正确的。

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So although I don't like, I don't believe the argument is sound-- Premise one doesn't happen to be the premise I myself would want to reject.

尽管我不喜欢,或是我不认为这条论证可靠,但前提一恰是我想要反驳的,它作为前提并非偶然

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I can believe in the existence of a meeting that takes place, even though I smuggle myself in as an observer when I picture that meeting.

即便在想象那场会议时，将自己作为观察者带入其中,我仍然相信会议的存在。

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It's a way to avoid the argument; although, for what it's worth, I should mention I don't myself believe that it's false that we have free will.

这是回避这条论证的一种方法,尽管这条论证有它自身的价值,应该说,我个人认为,人有自由意志,并没有错

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Remind you, that's not to say that I myself do believe that there will be a Judgement Day, and on that day God will reassemble the bodies.

提醒大家，我并不是说,我自己相信,有审判日的到来，那天上帝会重组所有肉体。

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I can believe in the possibility of a world without me, even though I smuggle myself in as an observer when I picture that world without me.

即便在设想没有我的世界时，将自己作为观察者带入其中,我还是能相信没有我的世界存在的可能。

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From which I think it follows that the mere fact that I've smuggled myself in as an observer doesn't mean that I don't really believe in the possibility that I'm observing in my mind's eye.

我想接下来就是说,仅仅是我将自己作为观察者进入,这一事实并不代表我不相信,我在脑中构建的这种可能性。

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Now, bracket the fact that, as I just explained, I don't myself find the argument from recollection persuasive. I don't think we got any good reason to believe based on the sort of things Plato draws our attention to.

我刚刚解释了，我并不觉得源于记忆的论证,有说服力,在柏拉图让我们注意的,这些观点的基础上。

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