In other words, in a way it's a disputed text and it is not written by Aristotle, but it's also a foundational text.

所以，诗学是一个充满争议的著作,它并不是由亚里士多德创作的，却非常重要。

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And then we moved to some general introductions to some foundational ideas in the study of psychology, Freud and Skinner.

接着我为大家概要地介绍了,一些基本的心理学知识,介绍了弗洛伊德和斯金纳的学说。

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I believe that these are the foundational moments of theorizing and that if you're going to teach anything like a survey, you've got to derive the rest of it from whatever the moment I happen to subscribe to might be."

我相信这些都对建立理论非常重要,如果你想教概论之类的东西，那么其它的部分都得是我赞同的才行“

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But what is new in Saussure and what really is foundational in semiotics as a science is two things that Saussure then goes on to say about the sign.

但是说索绪尔创造性的开创了,符号学，是因为两件事,这两件事是。

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These are foundational.

这些都是很基本的直觉。

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