The argument I'm about to sketch is a purely philosophical argument, not really so much a matter of who can explain this or that feature of us better than anybody else.

我接下来要介绍的,是一个纯粹的哲学论证,并非绝对意义上的,解释优劣决定孰强孰弱

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Depending on what F you fill in the blank with, what pet feature or fact you're trying to explain by appeal to the soul, you get a different argument.

根据你所挑选的不同功能特性F,以及你试图解释的现象或事实,诉诸于灵魂来进行解释,你会得到不同的论点

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What about the fact that-- We said there's a family of arguments, all of which have the general structure, inference to the best explanation, you need souls in order to explain feature F. Plug in a different feature F and you get a new argument.

这个事实怎么样,我们说过有一大类观点,它们有一些共同的结构,有关于这个最佳解释的推论,需要用灵魂的概念,来解释功能特征F,代入一个不同的,功能特征就会得到一个新的论点

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As one-liners go, it neatly sums up the underlying argument of writer-director Fruit Chan Kuo's second feature.

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