Their argument is that it's not just that consciousness doesn't clearly understand what it's looking at and is therefore alienated from it.

他们的论点是,意识不仅无法清楚地理解它所观之物,因而与之疏远。

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And so as a way of understanding what at this point is really the sheer repetitiveness of this disclaimer, I want to propose a metaphor.

因此为了理解这个论点是否真的,是这种放弃的纯粹的重复，我将会提出一个隐喻。

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Well, I'm not going to argue for and against that view-- just wanted to sketch it, so as to understand the arguments that turn on it.

我不会去主张或反对这个观点,只是想简述给你们,以便去理解那些在此基础上的论点

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It's a question of saying, "How on earth would you ever have the concept 'heterosexual' if you didn't have the concept 'homosexual' in place?" Right? The absolute interdependency of these concepts is, again, central to her argument and to her understanding of things.

这就像是说，如果首先没有“同性恋“这个概念,又怎么会有“异性恋“这个概念呢’,是吧，这些概念的绝对依赖性，是她论点的中心，同时也是她理解事物的中心轴。

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