来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡第8集第8集》

And at the very end of class I suggested that,

还有在下课前我提到
look, even if we were to grant to Plato that

即使柏拉图的观点是对的
in order to think about justice,circularity, what have you,

他说为了探讨正义正圆或者其他
we had to somehow grasp the forms,

我们必须对柏拉图型相有所了解
and even if we were to grant to Plato that

就算我们承认柏拉图是对的
nothing in this world is perfectly round or perfectly just,

这个世界上并不存在绝对的正圆和公正
it's not necessarily correct to say,

但这并不意味着
"So the only possible explanation of what's going on is

对此唯一合理的解释
that these things in the empirical world

就是这个现实世界里的事物
remind us of our prior acquaintance with the forms."

让我们想起了曾经遇见的型相
It could be that what goes on is,

还有可能是因为
when we bump up against something

当我们接触到一些