I think the more we think about it, the more we realize that we only know what it is if we know the system that it belongs to, which is to say, all of the things related to it which it is not. Right?

你们越仔细想这一点，就越明白，我们只有知道事物所属的符号系统,才能认识事物，所有事物都是和同一符号系统中的反面相关的？

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So what I decided is that you need to know the whole book in the sense that you need to know all of the key terms and key points.

所以我决定了,我把掌握整本书的要求改为,你需要知道所有的关键词和关键点

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