This in some ways might seem a case of putting the cart before the horse or the cart before the course maybe because how can you say how can we say ? what political philosophy is in advance of doing it?

这好像有点,本末倒置,或说未卜先知,因为你们怎能谈，我们怎能,先谈政治哲学，之后再来实作呢？

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