The alternative is to try to find some relevant difference between the watch case and the tower case.

还有一种方法是去找到,手表和搭积木塔这2个例子,之间的不同。

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Then we say the watch and the tower, in both cases is the same object when it was reassembled, we reassembled the body.

当我们说到手表和塔的例子时，两个例子中当物体被重组时,都是原来那个物体，我们重组了肉体之后。

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For those people who say "Yeah, van Inwagen was right about the tower and the same thing will be true about the watch."

还有些人认为,范·，因瓦根说的没错,手表那个例子中,他说的没错“

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Something that would allow us to say that "Well, when you reassembled the watch, ?" is it the same watch when you reassembled? " The tower is not the same tower.

这样我们才能说,“当你重组手表零件后，它还会是原来那只手表吗“,新塔也并非原来的塔了。

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And then of course we could have further investigate whether-- when you reassemble a body, is it more like the watch case or ? is it more like the tower case?

接着我们才可以,更深入地去研究-,当你重组肉体时，情况是更接近手表这个案例,还是搭积木塔这个案例？

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I just have to confess, I don't know what the best thing to say about these cases, I find myself inclined to think reassembled watch, same watch; reassembled tower, not same tower.

我必须得承认，我不知道,究竟怎么样解释这些例子好，我发现自己还是觉得,重组的手表是原来的手表;,重搭的塔并非原来的塔。

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