The authors rather fancy themselves as philosophers, though they would presumably balk at the description, since they confidently assert on their first page that “philosophy is dead.”

这两位作者相当自负其作为哲学家——他们大概不会明写出这一点，然而他们在第一页就自信地断言：“哲学死了。”

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But the nature of Dining Philosophers problem is I never know when the Dead-lock or starvation will happen.

但哲学家就餐问题的本质是我不知道什么时候会发生死锁或饥饿。

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How often have philosophers ruminated about how many trillions of dead invertebrates are swallowed up by the earth?

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