It's a critique of the idea of anything that has a center, one which is at the same time an enabling causal principle.

它是在评论任何事物都有一个中心的想法，与此同时存在一个任意的原理。

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There's this very tight causal connection between the body and the mind and the soul and the body, the body and the soul.

有种非常紧密的,因果关系存在于肉体和思想,灵魂和肉体,或是肉体和灵魂之中

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In many ways, he's not making a causal claim so much.

但他并没有，强力主张因果关系。

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In other words, Freud, Sophocles, all of the other versions I have at my disposal, have equal merit as versions, but none of them is a transcendental signified, none of them is a blanket term, and none of them is the causal explanation or meaning of the myth.

换句话说，弗洛伊德，索福克勒斯，还有所有其它供我使用的版本，都用同样的优点，但它们中没有一个是超验所指，没有一个是概括性话语，没有一个是神话的随意解释或意义。

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The causal paths that result in death may start different, but I presume that they converge and you end up having a set of events take place.

不同的手段导致死亡的方式不同,但是我认为有一点是相同的,你的死亡伴随着这一系列的事情发生

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One way of thinking about the metaphor of city and soul together is to think of it as a particular kind of causal hypothesis, about the formation of both individual character and political institutions.

思考城市与灵魂结合的方法,是将其想象成,是一种特别类型的,因果假说，关于形塑,个人性格与政治制度。

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Now, you know, when we've got our deterministic hats on, we think to ourselves, "There's got to be some underlying causal explanation, some feature about the break-down atoms that explains why they broke down and that was missing from the non-break-down atoms that explains why they don't break down.

现在,你知道,当我们用决定论的观点去分析这个问题时,我们自己寻思着,这背后一定有某种具有,因果关系的解释,某种关于分裂原子的特性,能解释为什么它们分裂了,而由于这种特性不存在于未分裂的原子,因而解释了它们为什么不能分裂

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