我们思考这种问题时，比如说一个房间具有某种用途，意味着使用这个房间时是具有一定目标的，而不一定与具体的任务或功能相关。

The way we think about it, saying that a room has a purpose implies that using it is associated with a goal, but not necessarily with a particular task or function.

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No no question that I can think of can be more fundamental. And this finally raises the question of the relation between the best regime or the good regime and what we could say are actually existing regimes regimes that we are all familiar with.

不，我想不出其它,更基础的问题,而这将带出一个问题,即最优政体与好政体之间的关系,及我们实际上可说的是，现存的政体,那个我们都非常熟悉的政体。

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