They never, strictly speaking, died at all."

严格地说他们从来就没死过
So what?

那又如何
They were on the border looking in.

他们毕竟在边境上探视过
To suggest that that couldn't be relevant evidence

要说这些都是不相干的经验
is like saying I can't tell you anything interesting about

就好比说我现在不能告诉你
what's going on in the hallway right now,

走廊上发生了什么
because after all I'm not in the hallway;

毕竟我不在走廊上
I'm here in the lecture hall.

我在教室里面
So what?

那又如何
Even though I'm here in the lecture hall,

就算我现在在教室里
I can see into the hallway and tell you what's going on in it.

我仍然能看到走廊并告诉你发生了什么
So attempts to dismiss the appeal to near-

因此想要在哲学基础上