If you did that, on some level, I think, you were absolutely right, even though you were utterly misconstruing the logic of the argument.

如果你那么做了，我认为在某种程度上你们是绝对正确的,即使你们完全理解错了这论证里面的逻辑。

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I just doubled the indentation each time so you can see it. So each successive call, notice what's happening. The argument is getting reduced. And we're going another level in. When we get down to this point, we're calling it with just a string of length one.

因此每次成功调用注意它的过程,我们的命题不断简化，而且我们不断深入嵌套,当我们走到这一步的时候,我们就是在调用它处理，仅有一个元素的字符串了。

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