No. I mean, there are reasonable philosophical or scientific grounds for worrying about each one of the premises.

不,我是指,我们有合理的哲学,或科学依据使我们,怀疑这的每一个前提

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That it is intended as a kind of joke to, in many ways, discredit the idea of the just city or at least to indicate its extreme implausibility.

目的是要用作戏谑，在很多方面，使人怀疑正义之城的概念,或至少是要指明其极难令人置信。

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We can say that, but I wonder if it's possible even for these similes to convince us of the easy coexistence of these two incredibly important theological categories, free will and divine foreknowledge.

我们可以说，但是我还是怀疑，这些比喻是否能够,使我们相信如此这种两个太过于重要的相异点,即自由意志和神圣天命，之间的共存性。

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It makes him a skeptic about revealed religion.

不是的这使他对天启教产生了怀疑。

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