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Jiang says commentary on Dante does not settle the providence problem and instructs the class to look for elegant, simple explanations rather than increasingly ornate metaphysics.
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Elegance
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "All we're doing is speculating, okay? Because, like, again, if you read all the commentary, the scholarship on Dante, no one knows what's going..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "All we're doing is speculating, okay? Because, like, again, if you read all the commentary, the scholarship on Dante, no one knows what's going..."
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"All we're doing is speculating, okay? Because, like, again, if you read all the commentary, the scholarship on Dante, no one knows what's going..."
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"...okay? Okay? So again, like, Occam's razor. We are looking for elegance. So that's a great explanation. All these are great explanations. But I'm..."
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"...truth is occam's razor okay occam's razor is the idea of elegance meaning i should be very i should be able to pretty simply..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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