The basic idea of giving a man a piece of paper and telling him it represents gold involves confidence; the extension of credit is merely an extension of confidence.

给某人一张纸，然后告诉他这就代表黄金，这其中的关键是信心；信贷的扩张其实是信心的提高。

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But these forces are not something that the man controls as a simple extension of himself.

但是这些并不是，让人自我控制的力量。

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Frege was the first man who applied the reference theory on terms to sentences, and demonstrated that the intension of a sentence was its idea and the extension was its truth.

弗雷格第一个将词的指称理论推广到语句上，论证了语句的内涵是其思想，外延是真值。

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But these forces are not something that the man controls as a simple extension of himself.

但是这些并不是,让人自我控制的力量。

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