We have to understand the way in which it's something that, if we're going to accept this point of view, we need to live with.

我们需要理解的是，如果我们接受某一观点，它就会如影随形地跟着我们。

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It's an hypothesis about something, the exact nature of which one needn't necessarily have in view.

它是关于某种事物的假说，由于人们思想的局限性。

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When I use the word "Soul," I'm going to have in mind this dualist view according to which the soul is something immaterial, nonphysical.

当我用"灵魂"这个词时,我会采用二元论思路,因为他们认为,灵魂是非物质,非物理的

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So for our purposes, we don't have to ask ourselves when Socrates in the dialogue says something, is this a view that the dead man Socrates actually would have held or is this simply a view that the dead man Plato put in the mouth of the character Socrates?

所以,出于这门课程的目的,我们无需深究,苏格拉底在对话中的某个观点,到底是属于那个真实的受死之人苏格拉底的,还是属于已故之人柏拉图,通过作品中苏格拉底这个角色所表述的

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