If you find this argument convincing, what it's an argument for is the claim that even if souls do exist, they may not be the key to personal identity.

如果你信服这个观点，我们要证明的是,就算灵魂真的存在，也不是人格同一性的关键。

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The first of the two passages I want to talk about is Hirsch's argument that "meaning is an affair of consciousness and not of words" -meaning is an affair of consciousness and not of words.

这两篇里我想首先讲讲赫施的主张,“含义关乎意识，而不是字词“,含义关乎意识，而不是字词。

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Notice, this is not an argument that souls don't exist.

注意，这不是争论,灵魂是否存在。

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