And it's one of those classic disassociations between what we think is unimportant and what empirically turns out to be more important.

长期以来，这种脱节,我们认为不重要的,通过实证研究，证明时重要。

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We have all of these common sayings that contradict each other and then empirically, some of them turn out to have more evidence supporting them than others.

有很多俗语表达的意思,相互矛盾,经过实证，其中一些比其他的,更有说服力。

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Today Aristotle speaks more empirically more politically about what a regime is.

今天，亚里士多德将告诉我们更多,从实务上与政治上来说，政体所代表的意涵。

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Imagine--this didn't, of course, actually happen, but imagine--the crucial point here is simply that we can imagine this story happening, not even that we think it's empirically possible, just it's conceivable, it's an imaginable story.

想象,当然,实际上并没发生,最关键的地方就是想象,故事因此而产生,别去想实际上是否可能发生,只需要一点想象,这是个虚构的故事

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