来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第9集 第9集》
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it still seems conceptually possible for a simple从概念上来说 -
to be destroyed in the following sense:还是可以通过以下方法来摧毁单一物的 -
it goes out of existence.可以让它根本就没有存在过 -
After all, where did the simples come from毕竟 单一物最初 -
in the first place?都是从哪来的呢 -
Well, at least from a logical point of view,至少从逻辑角度来说 -
it seems as though there's no difficulty in imagining想象在某时某刻一个给定的单一物 -
that at one point a given simple didn't exist根本不存在 这看上去不难 -
and then at the next point it popped into existence.在下个时刻 它突然就冒出来了 -
Well, how did that happen?这是如何发生的呢 -
Maybe God said--也许上帝会说 -
God says at the beginning of Genesis,上帝在创世之初说