So the job of a good philosopher of his kind is to help make us our ideas clear And to do that, he worked out a logical system.

所以像他那类出色哲学家的任务就是,帮助我们将我们自己的观点说清楚,为了这样，他研究了逻辑体系。

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They are mere personifications of abstract ideas, and it's not at all clear that Sin and her son, Death, exist as individual entities in the same way, or on the same plane, that Satan does, for example, or Beelzebub.

他们仅仅是将抽象的思想拟人化的结果，但我们不清楚的是罪恶之神和她的儿子死神，以同样的方式或在同一个星球作为独立的个体存在，例如撒旦或者苍蝇王比尔泽布也是这样。

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But as many of you know, and certainly you will find out here, they had pretty clear ideas of who ought to have those individual liberties and who would not, who indeed were born equal and who were not.

但是正如你们许多人知道的,当然你们在这里也会发现,他们非常清楚,谁该拥有这种个人自由,而谁不该,哪些人天生就是平等的,而哪些人不是

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