I move from speech to belief because I simply don't believe that I'm using figures of speech.

我从说转为了相信,仅仅因为我不相信自己正在使用修辞。

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But at least it doesn't seem to be the sort of argument, unlike some of the arguments I've considered last time about oh, nobody believes they're going to die because you can't picture being dead or what have you.

但这至少比我上次思考的，认为没有人相信自己会死，因为你不能想象死亡是什么样子,之类的论据有道理。

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