It's a very appealing kind of a priori theory, but the thing about theories is they're supposed to make predictions.

这是一个很有吸引力的早期理论，但是理论的意义在于,它们可以被用来进行预测。

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This in itself was extraordinarily useful and constructive, not just for subsequent literary theory, I think, but for the way in which English teaching actually can help people think better.

我觉得这真的很重要而且具有建设性意义，不仅是对以后的文学理论有影响，还使得英语课堂变得,真正可以引人思考了。

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Now, think about what it would mean ? to accept a valuable container theory.

现在想想它的意义,接受有价值容器理论的意义为何。

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And if they can't, what are the consequences for the utilitarian theory of morality?

如果不能，那么功利主义道德理论意义何在？

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This will be an historical as well as a theoretical discussion of insurance.

这对于保险业来说,不仅具有历史意义,同样具有理论意义

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Modern poetry arises, in Eliot's case, with the death of God, with the loss of a theological justification for life, with a sense of disenchantment, a sense of depletion, depletion of meaning and value.

在艾略特而言，现代诗歌的兴起，与对上帝信仰的消失，以及对生活不再在理论使其合理化，及人们的觉醒，对意义和价值的耗尽是相伴相随的。

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Anyway, that shows that I think probability theory does have a long history, but-- it not being an intellectual discipline-- it didn't really inform a generation of finance theory.

不管怎样,这个故事表明概率论,确实有很悠久的历史,但,那时它并非以学科形式存在,也没有对金融理论的产生有过指导意义

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So that's Kant's famous distinction between the purposive, which is the organization of an aesthetic object, and the purposeful, which is the organization of any object insofar as it goes to work in the world or for us.

所以康德的著名理论，关于区分美学意义上的“合目的性“,和存在意义上,服务于我们的“目的性“

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When we think about the theory of dividend or debt we end up with irrelevance-- it doesn't mean anything-- but the companies' boards talk about it incessantly and it seems to matter a lot to them.

我们一讲到股利或者负债理论,最后都是不相关的,没有什么意义,但是公司的董事们不停的提起这些,看起来又对他们很重要

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