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Jiang's research method is doubt, debate, and imagination: predictions create self-doubt, debate tests perspectives, and imaginative leaps reach truths not directly visible.
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Doubt
Jiang's research method is doubt, debate, and imagination: predictions create self-doubt, debate tests perspectives, and imaginative leaps reach truths not directly visible.
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Protestant reform creates a crisis of faith because the believer must know directly whether they love God and whether God loves them, while doubt or hesitation threatens damnation.
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Robespierre did not need full conscious certainty that his sacrifice would work; like a prophet, he acts through doubt and faith.
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Descartes represents a radical departure from authority because truth becomes something the individual must test through self-doubt and self-examination.
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Jiang reads Descartes' famous formula as 'I doubt, therefore I am': doubt is the irreducible certainty and the evidence of the soul.
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Modern science changes the governing question from 'what is truth?' to 'how do we know truth?', making doubt rather than divine inspiration the central priority.
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The Royal Society matters because it institutionalized peer questioning and doubt, allowing scientists to present findings before peers who improve the research process.
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The Scientific Revolution's main idea is the institutionalization of doubt: asking questions, debating, and experimenting are divine because heaven itself models debate.
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"...do that I think are very important is, first of all, doubt. You always want to question yourself. You always want to ask yourself,..."
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"Now, the last piece, and this is actually something that I do, but most people don't do, is I use my imagination. And all..."
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"...with your mother okay so it's hard for us not to doubt ourselves and so this creates the crisis in faith because in Protestantism..."
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"...Bible, the Bible is very clear. Jesus himself was full of doubt. He was not completely sure that people will remember him, okay? But..."
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"Okay? Does that make sense? He can never be confident that this will work out in the end. But because he took that leap..."
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"And he wrote a book called Meditations on the First Philosophy. This is a really, really important book in development of Western civilization. We..."
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"...and question everything I know. And through that process of self -doubt, self -examination, I can construct something that is more truthful. Okay."
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"And this is the idea of enlightenment. All right. And this is the idea of education. You know, when we try to teach you..."
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"has come and so today I have discharged my mind from all its cares and I've carved out a space of untroubled leisure. I've..."
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"...can actually engage in this process of self -examination is through doubt. Right. So what do I know to be true? Doubt is true...."
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"...know truth? Okay, it's really the idea of the introduction of doubt. Our main priority is to question and doubt the truth. Okay, it's..."
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"...their findings before a group of peers who will question and doubt them. And this will enhance their research and their research process, okay?..."
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Modernism begins as a religious problem before it becomes psychology, literature, art, social media, and depression.
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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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