The Metaphysical Foundation of Buddhism and Modern Science

Newtonian dynamics that, on the Aristotelian system, the loose things on
the earth's surface must be left behind by the earth's motion.
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Philosophy has been afflicted by the dogmatic fallacy, which is the belief
that the principles of its working hypotheses are clear, obvious and
irreformable. Then, as a reaction from this fallacy, it has swayed to the
other extreme which is the fallacy of discarding method. Philosophers
boast that they uphold no system. They are then a prey to the delusive
clarities of detached expressions which it is the very purpose of their
science to surmount. Another type of reaction is to assume, often tacitly,
that if there can be any intellectual analysis it must proceed according to
some one discarded dogmatic methods, and thence to deduce that
intellect is intrinsically tied to erroneous fictions. This type is illustrated
by the anti-intellectualism of Nietzsche and Bergson, and tinges
American Pragmatism.
Section IV. A method is a way of dealing with data, with evidence. What
are the evidences to which philosophy appeals?
It is customary to contrast the objective approach of the ancient Greeks
with the subjective approach of the moderns, initiated by Descartes and
further emphasized by Locke and Hume.
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