It doesn't do anything but at least that's one bite out of this problem.

虽然这个没起到任何实质性的作用,但是我们朝着我们要解决的问题迈出了一小步。

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The real substance is what the man does-- or woman does-- for the world.

而问题的实质是,这个男人,或女人,为世界做了什么贡献

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All right. Let's hope we can free our minds of these matters now and turn to something a little more substantive, which is the question--before we plunge in to Gadamer really: what is hermeneutics?

现在让我们把思想从这些事物中解放出来,转向更实质性的问题，在我们探讨伽达默尔之前：,曾提出这样一个问题：诠释学是什么？

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You are not gonna be graded The workshop, the virtual of it is that you bring up problems that other have not thought of and then there can be some conversation, from your point of view, not mine.

你们不会后悔的,讨论课的实质就是,你提出了一些其他人没有想到的问题,然后进行一些讨论，从你的观点来陈述，不要从我的观点来陈述。

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Alright, so then, this begs the question.

但这似乎并不是问题的实质。

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