He says if people want peace, the tribal leaders can play a role, if we are given the power and authority to do so.

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Making use of only our own reasoning, as opposed to whatever answers we might be given by divine revealed authority.

只用你自己的推测，与所有答案截然相反,我们可能被授予神圣的权威。

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In the beginning of the century where religious leaders, just because religious leaders had authority and where given control by the British.

在20世纪开始的时候，宗教领导，正是因为宗教领导有,权威，受到英国的控制。

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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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