Professor Yoshino explains. "Shakespeare calls this a problem of ocular proof, the idea that we need to see evidence before we believe in it -- and that,oftentimes, when metaphysical questions of guilt or innocence are difficult for us to answer, we have a tendency to reduce them to questions that pertain to physical evidence.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

Way back at the start of the semester when we asked,Why believe in souls?

学期一开始的时候我们研究过为何要相信灵魂的存在？

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We are, as I said, early in the semester when I said I'm a physicalist, I believe that people are just machines, but we're not just any old machine.

我们是，就像我之前说我是物理主义者时，我相信人只是机器，但我们不是旧机器。

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I do not believe we can come to simple conclusions when it comes to the cause and effects of such a complex disorder as autism."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

While I was there, many many of people said to me: look, we want you to succeed we believe you mind your doing, we know you have good intentions and we hate these people when they were in power, but we have to live here, t succeed, and many people have come here and not succeed before you.

当我在那边的时候，很多人对我说：,我们想要你成功，我们知道你很在意你所做的事，我们知道你是好意的，恨这些掌权的人，但是我们得在这里生活，如果你不能成功，在你之前也有很多人失败了，and，if，you，can’

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"And as American Jews we believe that our heritage informs us that it's important to stand up strong when religious freedom of others is threatened."

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

And it's because of that that I think we shouldn't be dismissive of the dualist when the dualist says, "We've got to believe in souls in order to explain it."

正因如此,我认为我们不应该轻视二元论者,当他们说,我们只有相信灵魂才能解释这些

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"This is at a time when we are working to relaunch negotiations and we believe that these actions make it more difficult for our efforts to succeed.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

But more importantly still--those are all crucial but there's an extra ingredient as well-- he thinks he's got good reason to believe, when he dies he's going to go, basically, to what we'd call heaven.

更重要的是,当然前面几点也很重要,但是还有更重要的一点,他觉得他有理由相信,他死后他将去到一个,我们通常称为天堂的地方

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And I still believe that in Africa we have been going through this kind of pressure for a pretty long time, so I believe that when it comes we can handle it and lift the cup on Friday,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Now as I say, I believe that when push comes to shove, we do need to get clear about both of those questions and so that's going to take the first several weeks of the class.

如果想深入了解这个话题,就必须弄清楚这两个问题,这就是头几周课的主要内容

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