我们的信念如果要合理的话,它们就必须符合现实世界的运行方式,即它们必须是真实的。
For our beliefs to be rational they must correspond to the way the world is-they must be true.
这个选择会在一个真实的应用程序中显得更加合理,但是我们希望避免介绍新的类来分散我们的注意。
That choice would make a little more sense for a real application, but we wanted to avoid the distraction of explaining new library classes.
根据英国诽谤法,原告必须首先证明实质性证据的确是污蔑性的,然后被告才说明是否合理,一般必须秉持真实性或公平性。
Under English libel law, a plaintiff must prove only that material is defamatory; the defendant then has to justify it, usually on grounds of truth or fairness.
So the question for us remains, which deeply challenged readers in Hobbes' own time, what makes Hobbes' story, as I am calling it, his story about the state of nature ? being a condition of war, what makes it plausible?
所以我们的问题依然存在,这使霍布斯时代的读者感到深深的挑战,是什么使得霍布斯的故事,关于自然状态的故事,战争状态的故事,是什么使它真实合理?
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