Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science

The current usage can express the doctrine of the reigning school of
thought and of certain accredited variations from it. The demand that an
alternative doctrine with other roots in the historic tradition should
confine itself to this selection of terms amounts to the dogmatic claim
that certain preliminary assumptions should never be revised. Only those
schools of thought are to be allowed which can be expressed in the
sacred terms. What can reasonably be asked, is that each doctrine
should ground its vocabulary on its own proper tradition. If this
precaution has been taken, an outcry as to neologisms is a measure of
unconscious dogmatism.
Section XIV. The main method of philosophy in dealing with its evidence
is that of descriptive generalization. Social institutions exemplify a
welter of chraracteristics. No fact is merely such-and-such. It
exemplifies many characters at once, all rooted in the specialities of its
epoch. Philosophic generalization seizes on those characters of abiding
importance, dismissing the trivial and the evanescent. There is an ascent
from a particular fact, or from a species, to the genus exemplified.
It is to be noted that the converse procedure is impossible. There can be
no descent from a mere genus to a particular fact, or to a species. For
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