In an image-centered and pleasure-driven world, Postman noted, there is no place for rational thinking, because you simply cannot think with images.

波斯曼指出，在一个以形象为中心、以快乐为驱动力的世界里，没有理性思考的空间，因为你根本无法用形象思考。

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Thus, because we can know rational truths without having to experience the world, then by definition they can tells us nothing about the world as we experience it.

因此，由于我们能在缺少实践的情况下掌握理性真理，那么从定义上讲，它们无法让我们了解自身所处的现实世界中的任何事。

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For our beliefs to be rational they must correspond to the way the world is-they must be true.

我们的信念如果要合理的话，它们就必须符合现实世界的运行方式，即它们必须是真实的。

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I think trying to understand our world is a really complicated endeavor and it's important to have a sort of solid rational approach like science does."

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And so what I'm going to do the next day is return to this discussion, and take a look at a more rational view of the chemical world. So, we'll see you on Friday.

我下一次要做的就是,继续这个讨论，并且观察一个更为理性的,关于化学世界的观点，周五见。

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