来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第9集 第9集》

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  Wherever you've got a soul, it is alive.
  只要有灵魂 它就是活着的
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  So it's deathless in sense number, in sense A.
  所以它在观念A里是不灭的
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  Since wherever you've got a soul it must be alive,
  既然只要有灵魂就是活着的
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  it couldn't be the case that the soul exists and is dead.
  也就不可能出现灵魂既存在又死亡的情况
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  So it's deathless in sense A.
  所以它在观念A里是不死的
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  But for all that, it could still be, logically speaking,
  但是即使这样 逻辑上来讲
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  that the soul could be destroyed,
  灵魂仍然可以被毁灭
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  just like a fire can be put out.
  就像火可以被熄灭
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  We could imagine something that couldn't be destroyed.
  我们可以想象某个不能被毁灭的东西
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  Then of course it would be deathless in sense B,
  那它在观念B里当然就是不死的
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  a much stronger sense of deathless.
  这种不死的观念要强大得多
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  What Plato needs, what Plato wants,
  柏拉图要做的是