Comparison corpus · methodology first
Compare claims without making them equivalent.
Each record declares the comparison axis, the valid claim on each side, the non-equivalences that must survive, and the inference the system prohibits.
Applied comparison corpus
See the source-text/translation and primary-text/commentary distinctions applied to Sangam landscape deities, Paripāṭal, Tamil divine names, and Āḻvār reception.
Explore classical Tamil traditions →2 evidence positions
Canonical authority and historical evidence
What changes when one statement is evaluated as sacred authority and as a historical claim?
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Source text and translation
How should a translated religious term remain connected to its documentary source and alternatives?
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Doctrine and lived practice
How do formal teaching and everyday enactment inform one another without one standing in for the other?
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Theological truth and empirical claim
Which parts of a proposition can empirical methods test, and which remain theological?
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First-person experience and clinical outcome
How can reports of contemplative experience coexist with standardized outcome measures?
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Structural similarity and historical genealogy
Does a shared pattern indicate influence, common ancestry, convergence, or only an analyst’s abstraction?
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Ritual efficacy and observed effects
How should tradition-internal efficacy claims relate to observable social, behavioral, or health outcomes?
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Insider and outsider categories
How can participant vocabulary and analytical vocabulary be used together without either disappearing?
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