But the state of nature, for him, is rather a kind of thought experiment after the manner of experimental science.

但是对他来说，自然状态，是一种思想的实验,这是在科学实验之后。

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So, every philosopher or psychologist or humanist or neuroscientist who has ever thought about people has had to make some claim about the nature of language and how it works.

因此,无论是哲学家,心理学家,人类学家,还是神经系统学家,只要他们曾经研究过人类,便会就语言的特性及其功能提出某些理论

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Presumably because we're led to the thought, we're attracted to the thought, that the nature of death, the facts about death-- whatever they are--should have an impact on how we live.

大概是因为我们被引向这个想法，我们被这个想法吸引，死亡的本质，死亡的事实-,不管怎么叫，应该对我们如何生活有影响。

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Suppose somebody said, "Yeah, it's true if I thought about the nature of death, the fact that the 50, 80, 90 years I've got on this Earth is all I'm going to have.

假设有人说，“没错如果我考虑了死亡的本质，我还有50，80，90年存活于世,我还有这么多年可活这个事实。

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