And doesn't Hobbes' materialism and his sort of mechanistic theory of nature seem to detract from any inherent worth ? of the individual?

难道霍布斯的唯物主义和,他的自然的机械理论,似乎有损于,个人的价值吗？

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Numbers are hard. That's why we teach whole semesters worth of courses in number theory.

因此我们整个学期关于数学理论,的学习也是物有所值。

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And again, I'm not gonna go on and on about this point, it worth noticing that even if you do believe that soul exist, nothing stops you from accepting the body theory of personal identity.

重申一下，我不想一直,讨论这个问题，我们得明白,即使你相信灵魂的存在，你也可以同时接受,人格同一性的肉体存在论。

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