艾伦的贡献在于提出了一个我们都认同的假设——因为我们不是机器人，所以我们控制自己的思想——并揭示了这个假设的错误本质。

Allen's contribution was to take an assumption we all share—that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts—and reveal its erroneous nature.

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这是个虚构的公司，所以我可以随意作假设。

There's no such company, so I can be completely hypothetical.

youdao

所以我没觉得我一定要接受灵魂存在的假设

So I don't feel forced to posit the existence of a soul.

youdao

So again,I'm going to suppose here on out that the metaphysical view that I've been sketching is right; that physicalism is true.

所以我要再次假设,我描绘的那个形而上学的观点是正确的;,物理主义是正确的。

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So, I infer the existence of atoms based on the fact that doing that allows me to explain things that need explaining.

所以说我推测原子的存在是基于,该假设使得我能够解释,所需解释的一些现象

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Because in an under-constrained problem there could be multiple solutions. So suppose I want to capture all of them or print all of them out.

因为在一个非约束性问题中,可能会有多组答案,所以假设我想把它们,全部获取或者全部输出。

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