This is a most problematic passage.

First, the fragment begins at a point in the presentation after the Scholar has presumably laid out his premisses, so there is no way to tell if the ensuing narrative is a proposal or a reinterpretation of a received narrative.

Second, the presentation breaks off well before the end, so it can only be conjectured what the Scholar's ultimate destination was intended to be.

Third, it has never been unequivocally established that this text was composed by the same person as the Author of those Writings known as the Scholar's Diary and the Scholar's Draft.

And finally, one cannot help but notice that what is elsewhere referred to as the Conference is here called the Convention.

Caveat lector.