英语释义

1. a thesis that the descriptive terms of scientific language are reducible to terms which refer to spatiotemporal things or events or to their properties

片语

Or the physicalist can或者

But on the physicalist picture但是从物理主义的角度看

that the physicalist cannot explain物理主义者无法解释的问题

A Physicalist Manifesto物理主义者宣言

The physicalist says物理主义认为

英汉例句

• We could, on the physicalist point of view, call those souls.

  我们可以站在物理主义者的角度上，称其为灵魂。

• There「s nothing upsetting or improper about the language of the soul, even on the physicalist point of view.

  谈论灵魂并不是什么令人沮丧或不得体的事情，即使是从物理主义的角度来看？

• Now, I want to take just a couple of minutes and mention some other puzzles, or at least questions, worth thinking about in terms of the physicalist picture.

  现在我想要用一点时间，提一下其他的谜团，或是说从物理主义者角度值得思考的问题。

• The physicalist will say, 「Look, that aspect of the mental is pretty clear.」

  物理主义者会说，精神的那个方面已经很清楚了。

• Now, the best possible response would be for the physicalist to say, 「Here」s how to build a machine that can be conscious in this sense.」

  物理主义者们现在，能做出的最好的回答就是，从这个意义上去理解，就能造出一台，具有意识的机器。

• What is it to die, on the physicalist view?

  在物理学者的角度上，什么才是死亡？

• On the physicalist view, it「s still perfectly legitimate to talk about minds.

  在物理主义看来，对心灵的探讨是完全合理的。

• The question we want to turn to, then, is, 「Which of these two views should we believe: the dualist position or the physicalist position?」

  接下来，我们的问题是，这两种观点，我们到底应该相信哪一种，二元论还是物理主义。

• And as you know, I」ve defended the physicalist conception, according to which all we are are just bodies capable of doing some fancy tricks, capable of P-functioning.

  你们都知道，我认同的是物理主义者的设想，根据这个设想，我们都只是有着机能的肉体，我们能够实施人格功能。

• Does science require that we believe in the physicalist view or not?

  科学有没有强制要求，我们接受物理主义的观点。

• Are there mysteries or puzzles about people that the physicalist just draws a blank, but if we become dualists, we can explain these features?

  是否存在某些人类的奥秘或谜团，物理主义对此束手无策，而二元论者，却能解释它们。

• You might say, 「Look, the physicalist can「t tell us that, because all the physical parts are still there when you」ve got the corpse, at least if it「s a fresh corpse before the decay has set in.」

  你可能会说，你看，物理主义不会告诉我们那些的，因为尸体所有的，身体器官部分都还存在，至少对于还未腐烂的尸体而言是这样的。

• Suppose it was true that you couldn」t explain love from the physicalist perspective.

  假设，我们不能从物理主义的角度，来解释爱。

• Now, the crucial point here, the point I was turning to as we ended last time, is that although a person on the physicalist view is just a body, a person isn「t just any old body.

  但问题的中心,即我在上次结课前谈到的关键点,在于尽管从物理主义的角度来看,人只是肉体,但并不是普通的肉体

• Are there things about us that the physicalist cannot explain?

  我们是否存在一些，物理主义者无法解释的问题。

• So the physicalist view is wrong and the soul must be eternal.

  所以现实主义者是错误的，而且灵魂肯定是不死的。

• According to the physicalist view, a person is just a body that can do all of those things: can reflect, can be rational, can communicate, can make plans, can fall in love, can write poetry.

  根据物理主义的观点，人是一个可以做以下事情的肉体，可以思考，可以理性，可以与人交流，可以制定计划，可以彼此相爱，可以写诗。

• So that might tempt you into saying the mind on the physicalist view is just a brain.

  这可能会让你觉得心灵，在物理主义那里就是大脑。

• How does the physicalist explain things like that?

  物理主义者又如何解释这种事呢？

• One other point worth emphasizing and sketching the physicalist view is this.

  另一个值得一提的,物理主义观点是这样的

• In contrast to that, we」ve got the physicalist view.

  而物理主义的观点则与之相对。

• There are only bodies, though when you「ve got a functioning body like ours, so the physicalist says, these bodies can do some pretty amazing things.

  人只是肉体,正如你我都有正常的身体功能,所以物理主义认为,这些肉体能做出一些相当厉害的事情

• We don」t know how to explain it in physicalist terms.

  我们不知道如何从物理主义角度去解释

• What「s death on the physicalist view?

  物理主义认为死亡是什么？

• That seems, more or less, the right answer from the physicalist point of view, although as we」ll see probably later today, we need to refine it somewhat.

  这或多或少，是从物理主义者角度得到的正确答案，纵然我们后面还会看到，这个答案是需要完善的。