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Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science

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[3] I use the expression 'body' synonymously with 'object' or 'particle' or<br />

'field' or 'system' or 'entity'.<br />

[4] Cf. Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, <strong>The</strong> World<br />

Publishing Company, New York <strong>and</strong> Clevel<strong>and</strong>. 1968. p. 669<br />

[5] See: Gadamer, H.-G.. Der Anfang des Wissens. Phillip Reclam jun. Stuttgart<br />

1999, p.35. Cf. Davies, P.C.W. <strong>and</strong> Brown, J.R. <strong>The</strong> Ghost in the Atom.<br />

Cambridge, University Press, 1986.<br />

[6] Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, <strong>The</strong> World<br />

Publishing Company, New York <strong>and</strong> Clevel<strong>and</strong>. 1968.<br />

[7] Cf. Bohm, D. Wholeness <strong>and</strong> the implicate Order. London: Routledge<br />

Classics. 2000.<br />

[8] Cf. Davidson, D. <strong>The</strong> myth <strong>of</strong> the subjective. In: Davidson, D., Subjective,<br />

intersubjective, objective. New York: Oxford University Press. 1988 (my own<br />

translation from German).<br />

[9] Zeilinger, A. Interview in the German newspaper Tagesspiegel 20 th <strong>of</strong><br />

December 1999 (my own translation). Steven Hawkings is defending a very<br />

similar position. He says: “I, on the other h<strong>and</strong>, am a positivist who believes<br />

that physical theories are just mathematical models we construct, <strong>and</strong> that it<br />

is meaningless to ask if they correspond to reality, just whether they predict<br />

observations”. Penrose, R. <strong>The</strong> Large, the Small <strong>and</strong> the Human Mind. In M.<br />

Longair (Ed.),<br />

<strong>The</strong> Objections <strong>of</strong> an Unashamed Reductionist. Cambridge:<br />

Cambridge University Press. 2000, p. 169. It is not meaningless to ask about<br />

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