or to introduce definition?

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>"...based on what he termed cit-jada-vada, or trying to conflate

>material with spiritual, which he compared with the endeavor to

>inosculate gold and stone."

>

>Is the word "or" required? "Trying to conflate material with

>spiritual" is the meaning of "cit-jada-vada."

 

Here the "or" does make things clearer. It keeps the reader from

thinking at first that the "he" you speak of was trying to conflate.