But still, let me quickly point out why you could resist the argument from free will to the existence of a soul.

但我还是要简短地指出,为什么你们会拒不认同,从自由意志的角度来论证灵魂的存在

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So maybe that's why we need to believe in souls in order to explain free will.

或许我们需要相信灵魂的理由就是,为了便于解释自由意志

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I simply want to point out enough about the problem to help you see why I don't think free will is a slam-dunk for the soul.

我只是想尽可能地,把这个问题提出来,以帮助你们认识到,为什么我不认同自由意志是灵魂的制胜利器

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You need the soul in order to explain free will.

那就是我们需要灵魂来解释自由意志

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My point here was only to say we shouldn't be so quick to think that we have to believe in the existence of a soul in order to explain our having free will.

我的观点不过就是说我们不应该这么草率地,认为我们不得不相信,灵魂的存在,从而解释我们有自由意志

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It's got to be the case to prove that we've got a soul-- at least for this argument to work to prove that we've got a soul-- it's got to be the case that we've got free will.

必须要有事实证明我们有灵魂,至少是为了能够证明这个论证,人是有灵魂的,必须要有事实证明我们有自由意志

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I've gone through a series of such arguments, and the one that we ended with last time was the suggestion that we need to believe in the existence of a soul in order to explain the fact that we've got free will.

我已经讲过一系列这样的论证,上次课结束时我提到的一个论证认为,我们只有相信灵魂存在,才能解释我们拥有自由意志这一事实

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