Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science

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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 110
facts and species are the product of the mingling of genera. No genus in own essence indicates the other genera with which it is compatible. For example, the notion of a backbone does not indicate the notions of suckling the young or of swimming in water. Thus no contemplation of the genus vertebrate, taken by itself, can suggest mammals or fishes, even as abstract possibilities. Neither the species nor the instance are to be discovered by the genus alone, since both include forms not 'given' by the genus. A species is a potential mingling of genera, and an individual instance involves, among other things, an actual mingling of many species. A syllogism is a scheme for demonstration of ways of mingling. Thus the business of Logic is not the analysis of generalities but their mingling. [Cf. Plato's Sophist, 253] Philosophy is the ascent to the generalities with the view of understanding their possibilities of combination. The discovery of new generalities thus adds to the fruitfulness of those already known. It lifts into view new possibilities of combination. Section XV. Even the dim apprehension of some great principle is apt to clothe itself with tremendous emotional force. The welter of particular 111
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1.Summary The key terms. 1. Key ter
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ideas of substance or subject, two
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2. Nagarjuna Preliminary note We sh
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distinction between two forms of be
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(4) Instrumentalism Instead of favo
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19. “That which has arisen depend
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A brief review of the 25 chapters o
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Chapter 2: A mover and the distance
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Chapter 10: Fire and fuel. Photogra
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Chapter 12: Suffering and the cause
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Chapter 13. A teenager and an aged
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Chapter 23. Pure and impure. Rio Ne
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A solar storm. Something is happeni
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sometimes three complementary bodie
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5. The metaphysical foundations of
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Albert Einstein’s contribution to
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Niels Bohr’s contribution to the
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The atoms arrive in discrete lumps.
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Figure 1: In this Feynman diagram,
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centimeter) and are so weak that th
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philosophers and physicists have be
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What is reality? We have become acc
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4. as an intermediate state by Roge
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Appendix 3: Alfred North Whitehead:
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of Miletus, alive at the date 600 B
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Christian scheme of salvation. Its
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accordance with his clear-cut intel
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