He wants to find a way to not so much redeem as affirm time and age and understand them not simply as a cause of despair or as a cause of defeat.

他想找到一种方式，不是去挽回,时间或年龄，而是承认它们,不将其仅仅理解为绝望或失败的原因。

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If that argument, if the argument-- If trying to run the Cartesian argument for astronomy fails, yet it seems to be an exactly analogous argument, we ought to conclude that the argument for the distinctness of the mind and the body must fail as well.

如果这个论证,如果把卡氏论证运用到天文学,是失败的,看来我们也不得不承认,类似的那个证明心灵,和身体不同的那个论证,必然也是失败的

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