But in the meantime you see that we can't mess with conventional systems by imposing the individuality of our will on them and expecting anything to change.

所以，我们不能,以个人的意志改变,一个事物在惯例中的意义。

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In the meantime, Gadamer is objecting to this because he says, you simply can't do this.

同时，伽达默尔反对历史主义因为他说，人们做不到。

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