But the purposiveness of the object is the way in which it is sufficient unto itself.

而“合目的性“只得是事物对,其自身而言的。

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The thought is that there's something about us that needs explaining.

其思路是,存在一些有关我们自身的亟待解释的事物

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And it says something, in a way, about how easily we can be misled as to what things in our environment, even things coming from our own body, mean.

说是的，在某种意义上，我们很容易,被周围环境中的事物所误导，甚至被来自我们自身的东西误导。

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If it were all the things that it's not, or if it were identical to all the things that somehow or another it's not, then I would be in a very difficult situation because I wouldn't have any means of knowing it in particular.

如果一件事就是它自身的反面，或者和其他的事物没有区分之处,那么我们，就很难认识它,因为我们没有办法认识它。

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