Once we get clear about what the relevant metaphysical glue is, we'll be in a position to start asking: Could this happen or not?

一旦我们知道了,形而上粘质是什么，我们就会问：,这会发生吗？

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We weren't going to be in a position to see that until we went through all the stuff we've been going over for the last couple of weeks.

我们处理了过去几周研究过的问题,才能搞清这个。

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The Second Brother, you'll remember, had taken what I take to be the perfectly reasonable position, the cautious position, that the Lady is in danger - that she's a sitting duck, in fact, out there in the dangerous forest.

戏中的弟弟，你们记得，采取了,我认为非常合理的立场，小心谨慎的立场，他认为那位少女处于危险的境地,-她只身于危险的丛林之中，极易受到伤害。

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And, by the way, if you ever feel that you are in a compromising position, someone is pressuring you for information, just raise your hand and ask to be reseated.

另外，如果你觉得你在一个折中的位置，有人强迫看你的信息，只需要举起手来要求调换座位。

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So, I'll also put this up on Wednesday, and by Wednesday you might have a bit of a better -be in a better position to answer this question.

我周三的时候还会给大家呈现这个,也许到周三的时候,你们就能更好地回答这个问题了

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But now that we're here,we're in a position perhaps to raise the question, should we be asking what it takes to survive?

现在我们必须想要提出的问题应该是，要怎样才能生存？

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Idealism is a position that's got a very long history in philosophy and for many classes would be worth taking a fair bit of time to consider more carefully.

唯心主义这个观点,在哲学史上占据了很长一段时间,并且值得我们花几节课,时间用心解读这个观点

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Maybe there is a difference there, I don't have a good theory as to what the difference is, since I don't have a good theory to what the difference is, I'm not in a good position to decide whether a reassembled body would be ? the same body or different body?

也许这两个案例是有不同，我没有充分的理论来,解释这两者之间的不同,由于我无法解释两者的不同，我也就无法去下结论,究竟重组的肉体,是原来的肉体还是不一样的肉体？

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