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Query: --query Passages that quote Louis Menand.
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Vector: 20, BM25: 20, overlap: 7, merged: 33, re-ranked to: 15
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Response:
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The provided excerpts feature multiple references to Louis Menand's quote about hypostasis and our creation of God as a fiction.
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Here are the relevant passages:
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- **"We created God, and then pretended that God created us."** **(file_path: ./data/2025-11-04.txt)**
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This excerpt introduces Menand's quote as the starting point for an exploration of how humans create and interact with abstract
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concepts.
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- **"We hypostatized our own concept and turned it into something “out there” whose commandments (which we made up) we struggle to
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understand and obey."** **(file_path: ./data/2025-11-04.txt)**
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This quote delves further into the idea of turning concepts into something tangible, emphasizing the struggle to understand and
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follow the rules we create.
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- **"We are supplicants to our own fiction."** **(file_path: ./data/2025-11-04.txt)**
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The passage concludes by emphasizing the concept of being subservient to our own creations, highlighting the complex relationship
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between human stories and reality.
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- **"We created God, and then pretended that God created us."** **(file_path: ./data/2022-08-14.txt)**
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This excerpt reiterates the core idea from Menand's quote in a slightly different phrasing.
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- **"We hypostatized our own concept and turned it into something “out there” whose commandments, which we also made up, we
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struggle to understand and obey."** **(file_path: ./data/2022-08-14.txt)**
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This quote emphasizes the process of creating rules and struggling to comprehend them while adhering to them.
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All these excerpts contribute to exploring Menand's perspective on how humans create, project, and interact with abstract
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concepts, highlighting the complex relationship between stories, beliefs, and reality.
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**Files contributing:**
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* **2025-11-04.txt**
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* **2022-08-14.txt**
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Source documents:
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2025-11-04.txt ./data/2025-11-04.txt 3.303
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2025-02-14.txt ./data/2025-02-14.txt 3.144
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2022-08-14.txt ./data/2022-08-14.txt 2.183
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2021-07-04.txt ./data/2021-07-04.txt 1.595
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2025-02-14.txt ./data/2025-02-14.txt 1.504
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2025-07-27.txt ./data/2025-07-27.txt 0.171
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2024-07-26.txt ./data/2024-07-26.txt -0.969
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2024-09-06.txt ./data/2024-09-06.txt -1.661
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2024-04-08.txt ./data/2024-04-08.txt -2.017
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2025-02-05.txt ./data/2025-02-05.txt -2.027
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2022-04-17.txt ./data/2022-04-17.txt -2.054
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2023-07-01.txt ./data/2023-07-01.txt -2.284
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2023-01-06.txt ./data/2023-01-06.txt -2.315
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2024-09-04.txt ./data/2024-09-04.txt -2.379
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2024-08-03.txt ./data/2024-08-03.txt -2.391
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Query processed in 78 seconds.
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