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Jiang's explicit criterion for choosing among competing explanations in the Dante discussion.
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Occam's razor
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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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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"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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"...complicated. Let's focus on simple solutions, okay? Okay? So again, like, Occam's razor. We are looking for elegance. So that's a great explanation. All..."
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"...truthful enough because the way for us to understand truth is occam's razor okay occam's razor is the idea of elegance meaning i should..."
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"...at least swung a few points to donald trump in a razor -thin election and just stole the thing from him put this letter..."
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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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