A student summarizes Jiang's contrast by saying Paul sounds passive and deterministic while Dante makes the reader an active agent inside truth and beauty.
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Determinism
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"from us I think okay um this reminds me of an analogy I heard about God being a clockmaker and whether the clockmaker um..."
"...like a critic and he says um your framework falls into determinism right like um It falls into the idea that this will happen..."
"...that it's creepy. I think it's actually very cool. I fear determinism. Okay. Yeah. And of course, I work for that company and just..."
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