Still,Hyun's rejection of the North's explanation is a sign the South does not rule that possibility out.

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Now,what I've been arguing is that,logically speaking, even if you are a physicalist, that doesn't rule out the possibility of survival.

我现在要说的就是，逻辑上讲，即便你是物理主义者，也无法排除生存的可能性。

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So even if it does turn out that you can't have free will and determinism, that doesn't rule out the possibility that we are purely physical objects, because not all purely physical systems are subject to determinism.

因此即使最终证实,你不能同时拥有自由意志和遵从决定论,也不能排除我们是纯粹,物理实体的可能性,因为并不是所有的纯粹物理系统,都遵从决定论

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Aristotle does not rule out the possibility of such a person emerging a person of what he calls excessive virtue almost hyperbolic excellence he says who stands so far above the rest as to deserve to be the natural ruler overall.

亚里士多德并未排除,这种人出现的可能性，一位他认为,具有过多美德，及几近夸张的卓越特质,他说，能持续凌驾众人之上的人,值得成为全面性的自然统治者。

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If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

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