An indifference relation derived this way will generally not be transitive.

这种方法得到的无差异关系通常不会被传递。

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In the case of diversity of variety each diverse member exhibited an indifference to every other, and they had no other relation to each other, save what was given by a comparison external to them.

前面早已表明，差异的东西是彼此互不相干的，他们彼此之间除了由外在的比较而得到的关系外，没有别的关系。

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