What is important is not truth, but publication, which has become almost an end in itself.

重要的不是真相，而是出版，出版本身几乎已成为目的。

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Do Sperber and Mercier think that the point of their own reasoning is not truth but winning an argument?

斯珀博与默斯尔会认为他们自己的推理并非真理而只是为了赢得争论吗？

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There's not a vestige of truth in the rumour.

这个谣传毫无真实可言。

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The problem is that "lie" also means to not tell the truth, as in "I lied to my mother."

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We'll never find Truth in her entirety, at least not until the Second Coming, and who knows when that will be?

我们永远找不到完整的真理，至少在第二次到来之前不能，谁知道那将是什么时候呢？

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And the truth of whether a book should or should not be censored is something that's come about through the diligent effort of a group, rather than a single arbitrary judge like the state licenser.

但一本书是否真正被控制,是一堆人努力的结果，而不是政府出版管理处的人员专横的决定。

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The goal was not truth or financial responsibility, but to pass the bill.

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No matter how good it is, the reader will always suspect the goal is not truth-seeking, but the promotion of IBM.

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Perhaps his aim all along was not truth but defiance.

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