价值的确定决定了功能的选择，概念则需要明确界定。

The sureness of value has determined the choice of the function, and the concept needs the definite boundary.

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一个人要意识到“我不知道”同样会用到想象，因为他确定决定几个相互矛盾设想与某个证据都不矛盾。

In recognizing that, one may rely just as much on imagination, because one needs it to determine that several competing hypotheses are equally compatible with one's evidence.

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“他们很擅长一些事情，这就是为什么他们在此处和别处工作的缘故，但他们还不确定决定自己坚持一辈子的那个信念是什么。” 他说道。

"They are good at a few things, so that's what they do here and there, but they aren't sure what that one big thing they want to do forever could be, " he says.

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It has to stay relevant to the market, so nobody really knows where these interest rates come from because no one person sets them.

交易价格必须与市场价格一致,因此没有人能确定,利率的决定过程,因为个人无法决定利率

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I'm not sure how many of us would decide the last thing we wanted to do with our remaining years is to spend it in college.

我不确定我们中有多少人会决定,在最后几年里要做的最后一件事是,上大学。

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So if we were to spell out the argument somewhat more fully, it might be, "We have free will, but you can't both have free will and be subject to determinism or subject to deterministic laws."

因此我们要更完整地阐述这个论证的话,它应该是,人有自由意志,但人不能既有自由意志,又遵从决定论 或服从确定性的定律

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