While foreign decisions do not rank as precedent, Kagan answered that they could be informative in much the same way as one might gain knowledge or insight from reading a law review article.
当“外国法院的判决不能作为先例”,卡根回答,“它们是非正式的,但可以通过阅读法律评论文章取得知识或者见解。”
In certain circumstances the rigour of the theory can be challenged, but in the final analysis the knowledge claimed remains the same.
在特定的情形下,这一理论的严密性会受到挑战,但归根结底,总结出的知识不会变化。
The idea was to add to our knowledge so that we might someday come to understand how human cultural behavior could vary so much and yet be so much the same at different times and in different places.
这为人们积累了知识,从而,也许有一天我们能够理解,在不同的历史时间和不同的地域上,人类的文化行为具有如此巨大的差异。
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