Jiang says he does not know the answer to the final psyop question and is offering a theory with uncertain connections.
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Jiang explicitly presents the lecture as speculative theorizing: the ideas are tools for understanding the world, not gospel or final truth.
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Jiang explicitly presents the lecture as speculative theorizing: the ideas are tools for understanding the world, not gospel or final truth.
Jiang says Socrates may not have been much of an intellectual influence on Plato because Socrates questioned other people's wisdom but did not propose theories of his own.
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"...the answer to that, okay? I'm just providing you with a theory. And these connections, we don't know how close they are, okay? It..."
"...point of this class is to help you to help the theories and the ideas to better understand the world. These are tools."
"This is not truth. These are tools. Alright so the first question I have for you is what is happening in Israel? Right now..."
"...wisdom, but he himself did not propose any of his own theories, okay? Right. So what we know is this. First of all, during..."
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