Nineteenth century workers would probably be surprised to know that their pants would one day become a fashion object.

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Perhaps the argument should be, "We have to believe in souls because no mere physical object, no machine could feel."

而应该是,我们不得不相信灵魂,因为所有物理对象,所有的机器都没有感觉

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Is the mind to be understood in terms of this immaterial object, the soul? So are there two kinds of things?

难道心灵必须得被理解为,一种非物质客体,也就是灵魂吗,这两种东西是一样的吗

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Of course, Moscow can be expected to object to such a course of action.

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Japanese renewables firms' foreign rivals know it would be hard to object to such subsidies without seeming callous, given the scale of Japan's post-quake crisis.

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The plastic must also be flat and smooth for the reading to be accurate, and the object must be brought to the machine (which is not very portable) for analysis, which takes yet more time.

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