That's something that only the mind can think about, that we don't actually have in the world, the empirical world itself.

那仅仅是心灵可以设想的东西,而在现实的经验世界中,却是不可能存在的

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One of the reasons this understanding seems so problematic is the idea that we don't appeal to the authority of an author in making our mind about the nature of a given field of discourse.

这种理解之所以看起来有问题,一个原因就是我们不会为了弄清一个特定领域话语的本质,去诉求作者的权威。

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We don't know what Plato had in mind.

不知道柏拉图是怎么想的。

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