Glossary
Jiang's description of the seminar as an inquiry space where participants test large metaphysical and literary claims without requiring uniform belief.
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class of speculation
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "of speculation of inquiry of debate okay so um you can believe whatever you want all right anyway let's let's continue okay uh carol..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "of speculation of inquiry of debate okay so um you can believe whatever you want all right anyway let's let's continue okay uh carol..."
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"of speculation of inquiry of debate okay so um you can believe whatever you want all right anyway let's let's continue okay uh carol..."
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"...about how the world works right because this is a class of speculation it's a class of theory don't think this is the truth..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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