Glossary
Jiang's name for a class method that suspends purely academic distance and treats reading as a lived quest into the structure of the universe.
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intellectual speculation
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...of all, this is not an academic seminar. This is about intellectual speculation. It's about going on a journey like Dante went on his..."
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Glossary
Class mode that treats classroom material as hypotheses for exploration instead of settled academic demonstration.
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Jiang responds that the class is not an academic seminar but a journey of intellectual speculation that requires a leap of faith into the poem's divinity and perfection.
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"...of all, this is not an academic seminar. This is about intellectual speculation. It's about going on a journey like Dante went on his..."
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"...confident, they don't really remember that a lot of this is speculation and oversimplification for the sake of clarity. So it's very important for..."
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"...our society at this time in history is to engage in intellectual speculation which includes alchemy which is you know their form of chemistry..."
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"...this is all theory. Okay? This is a class focused on intellectual speculation. It's meant to be fun. It's meant to make us more..."
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"...I feel that a classroom ought to be a place of intellectual speculation. So rather than me presenting facts, what I could do and..."
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"...number two. And number three is, given that I'm interested in intellectual speculation, I think the next step for me is to write a..."
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"Look, I just engage in intellectual speculation. I have no concrete evidence to work from. I don't even know any of the players. Right...."
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"...really important to understand is that this is a class on intellectual speculation. Okay. We're trying to figure out theories. We're trying to play..."
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"that accusation right okay so all i do is engage in intellectual speculation okay i'm trying to create predictive models that allow us to..."
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"...and and so all i'm saying is this this is all intellectual speculation let's see what happens"
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"...lot of people this is conspiracy theory uh for me it's intellectual speculation i'm trying to figure out how the world works so i'm..."
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