我们不应该排除谈判的可能性。

We should not exclude the possibility of negotiation.

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他拒绝排除增税的可能性。

He refused to rule out the possibility of a tax increase.

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警方尚未排除那个男子是被谋杀的可能性。

Police have not ruled out the possibility that the man was murdered.

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Now,what I've been arguing is that,logically speaking, even if you are a physicalist, that doesn't rule out the possibility of survival.

我现在要说的就是，逻辑上讲，即便你是物理主义者，也无法排除生存的可能性。

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So even if it does turn out that you can't have free will and determinism, that doesn't rule out the possibility that we are purely physical objects, because not all purely physical systems are subject to determinism.

因此即使最终证实,你不能同时拥有自由意志和遵从决定论,也不能排除我们是纯粹,物理实体的可能性,因为并不是所有的纯粹物理系统,都遵从决定论

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Aristotle does not rule out the possibility of such a person emerging a person of what he calls excessive virtue almost hyperbolic excellence he says who stands so far above the rest as to deserve to be the natural ruler overall.

亚里士多德并未排除,这种人出现的可能性，一位他认为,具有过多美德，及几近夸张的卓越特质,他说，能持续凌驾众人之上的人,值得成为全面性的自然统治者。

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