Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science

Thus an appeal to literature, to common language, to common practice, at
once carries us away from the narrow basis for epistemology provided by
the sense-data disclosed in direct introspection. The world within
experience is identical with the world beyond experience, the occasion of
experience is within the world and the world is within the occasion. The
categories have to elucidate this paradox of the connectedness of
things: - the many things, the one world without and within.
Section IX. European philosophy is founded upon Plato's dialogues, which
in their methods are mainly an endevour to elicit philosophic categories
from a dialectic discussion of the meanings of language taken in
combination with shrewd observation of the actions of man and of the
forces of nature.
But in one dialogue, the Sophist, Plato explicitely considers the methods
of philosophy. One of his conclusions is to point out the limitations of
common speech. Mere dialectic, uncriticized is a fallacious instrument,
the mark of the Sophist. For example, Plato insists that not-being is
itself a form of being. Thus in philosophy linguistic discussion is a tool,
but should never be a master. Language is imperfect both in its words
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