Name: 【TED-Ed】笛卡兒：我存不存在？(How do you know you exist? - James Zucker)
Uploaded: 2015-11-03T23:00:00.000Z
Duration: 3 min 3 s
Description: 你怎麼知道你真實存在這個世界上？你的存在只是一場夢，或是瘋狂的科學家欺騙我們，讓我們相信我們存在這個世界上？James Zucker 用法國哲學家笛卡兒的《第一哲學沈思集》解釋這些令人難以置信的問題！ 1demolish0:23 demolish可以猜成三個部分，字首 de 表示「下」、字根 mol「建築物」以及動詞字尾...

It's an obvious question until you try to answer it,

這是一個平凡無奇的問題， 直到某天你想要找出這問題的答案

情態副詞

In his "Meditations on First Philosophy,"

法國哲學家笛卡兒在他的著作「第一哲學沈思集」

René Descartes tried to answer that very question,

demolishing all his preconceived notions and opinions

All his knowledge had come from his sensory perceptions of the world.

笛卡兒的知識是來自於他對這個世界的認知

You know you're watching this video with your eyes, hearing it with your ears.

你知道你正用眼睛看，用耳朵聽這部影片

你的感官知覺證明 ，這個世界就如它所呈現的樣子

They aren't deceiving you, but sometimes they do.

你的感官知覺所沒有欺騙你， 但有時候，你就是被騙了

You might mistake a person far away for someone else,

你或許從遠處將一個人誤認成另一個人

or you're sure you're about to catch a flyball,

但實際上，這顆球掉卻狠狠地掉在你前面的地板上

you know what's right in front of you is real.

你知道擺在你前面的事物， 到底有那些是真實存在的

Your eyes, your hands, your body: that's you.

你的眼睛，你的手，你的身體， 這是一個真正實在的你

Only crazy people would deny that, and you know you're not crazy.

只有瘋子才會否認自己的存在， 而你知道自己不是瘋子

Anyone who'd doubt that must be dreaming.

任何懷疑自己的人一定都是在作夢

喔不，如果你真的是在作夢呢？

夢境讓你感覺眼前這一切都是真的

在夢中，你會相信自己正在游泳、飛行

or fighting off monsters with your bare hands,

When you're awake, you know you're awake.

當你醒著的時候， 你確實知道你是醒著的

Ah! But when you aren't, you don't know you aren't,

啊！但當你睡著時，你也不知道自己是否清醒

所以，你無法證明自己不是在作夢

Maybe the body you perceive yourself to have isn't really there.

或許在你的感官認知之下， 你的身體是不存在的

Maybe all of reality, even its abstract concepts,

包括所有真實的事物， 甚至是抽象的概念

like time, shape, color and number are false,

如：時間、形狀、顏色、數字等，都是騙人的

Descartes asks if you can disprove the idea that an evil genius demon

笛卡兒問了個問題： 你是否能夠反駁

has tricked you into believing reality is real.

你是被惡魔欺騙， 以致於你相信一切實際存在的事物都是真的

Perhaps this diabolical deceiver has dupedyou.

或許是這個邪惡的惡魔欺騙了你

The world, your perceptions of it, your very body.

你用你的身體去感知這個世界的存在

You can't disprove that they're all just made up,

你無法反駁你感知到的這一切，是被捏造出來的

沒有感官知覺，那你如何確定你的存在？

and I bet you aren't row, row, rowing the boat merrilyat all, are you?

like the duped, nonexistent doof you are/aren't.

If you aren't, good; if you are, even better,

如果你沒有被說服，很好， 如果你被說服了， 那更好

you would prove that you're a persuaded being.

你就會知道，你是一個被說服的人

You can't be nothing if you think you're something,

只要你認為自己是個「什麼」，你就不會什麼都不是

even if you think that something is nothing

because no matter what you think, you're a thinking thing,

因為不論你怎麼想， 你就是一個會思考的存在

or as Descartes put it, "I think, therefore I am."

就如笛卡兒所說的：「我思故我在」