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truthful but not factual
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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"So, again, this is not factual. Athena doesn't really exist, but it's truthful in that it gives us insight into how the human brain..."
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"He saw all eyes focused on him, okay? So this is factual, but it's not truthful. Do you understand? It doesn't give us insight..."
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"...that's point one um point two is um i made many factual mistakes yesterday i've been making many factual mistakes throughout uh"
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"...about jesus's murder so you speak was it meant to be factual or was it meant to be biblical um so this is the..."
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"This is just factual. Section 224 does not authorize a single dollar of new aid or facility to transfer any additional arms to Israel...."
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"...you to make better observations. Don't be too concerned about being factual. And this is an argument I'm going to have with a lot..."
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"...of all, it's explanatory in that even though this is not factual, it does help us understand how the world works."
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"...creates a huge paradox. How is it that this is not factual, okay? This is not at all factual, but it is truthful, meaning..."
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"...secret societies, I guess people want to say, well, where's the factual evidence? Where's the evidence? You said, I think, the Jesuits control the..."
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"...as just gods and spirits okay and even though it's not factual it is truthful in that it allows us to better understand the..."
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"...Ukraine will probably win this war so that's the kind of factual if America did not intervene in this war what happened in reality..."
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"...gas, it's caused the economy to crater. So the kind of factual is the Americans didn't do this. The Americans didn't blow up the..."
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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