A student proposes that for Dante faith functions as a cornerstone or premise: you first accept God's existence by faith and then build later reasoning on that basis.
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Jiang says Beatrice's task is to elaborate this premise that everything one does is a matter of chosen desire and will.
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"something different what what is this yes he's saying that faith are the cornerstones of the universe but that you have to build on..."
"...and will. Does that make sense? Okay. And this is the premise that Beatrice is going to elaborate on. Um, and expand on as..."
"...this this takes us back to my dodging the biographical uh premise but I'll say this much he was he was interested in the..."
"...impressed but yeah so so so this is the basic i premise here okay it's because of the unknown that uh people are afraid..."
"Verse 97, I heard the premises of old and new impelling your conclusion. Why do you hold these to be the speech of God?"
"...this is how the universe works. And this is the basic premise that you have to work with. Like everything that you do is..."
"And this basically spells out the basic premise, framework for all future US -China cooperation and dialogue. And the Shanghai framework basically resolves the..."
"...Well, I don't see how he can successfully sell us the premise that this was always about preventing them building a nuclear weapon when..."
"...the entire, the current global economic order is based on the premise of cheap oil, right? Because cheap oil is the basis for everything...."
"...you've seen the Netflix series, The Squid Game, right? The entire premise of The Squid Game is you have all these rich people in..."
"...be able to continue ruling the world. And if that's the premise, then the world is really not going to shift over from unipolarity..."
"...some time to explain what I mean okay so the very premise of the American empire is something called the McKender Heartland thesis and..."
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