As God is holy, separate and distinct, so you shall be holy.

上帝是神圣的，独立且与凡人不同的，因此我们应该模仿他。

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Since I can imagine my mind without my body, it must be the case that my mind is something separate and distinct from my body.

正是因为我可以脱离于身体想象心灵,所以就可以说,我的心灵独立于身体

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I believe the attempts to establish the existence of a soul, an immaterial object, the house of consciousness separate and distinct from the body, I think those arguments fail.

我认为,无论是试图证明,灵魂作为一种非物质的东西,而存在,还是证明心灵,这个意识的处所,独立于肉体,我认为这些论证都不成立

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So this Cartesian argument seems to show us that the mind is something separate from, distinct from, not reducible to, not just a way of talking about, my body.

所以这个卡氏论证似乎给我们表明了,心灵是独立于身体,不同于身体,不能称作身体,不是"我身体"的另一种说法

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So the mere fact that we decide, if we do ultimately decide that there is a soul, something nonphysical, separate and distinct from the body, doesn't guarantee that we survive our physical death.

根据我们仅有的事实去判断,如果我们最终判定灵魂是存在的,它是一种无形的,独立的,与肉体截然不同的东西,但仍不能保证我们会在肉体死亡后活下来

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I want to emphasize the point that the various arguments that I have been talking about so far, although they have this common strand-- "Inference to the best explanation"-- are each separate and distinct arguments.

强调一点,到现在为止,我提及的各种论据,尽管它们都是,最佳解释的推论,但每一个都是独立而分明的

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