Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science

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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 98
and in its forms. Thus we discover two main errors to which philosophic method is liable, one is the uncritical trust in the adequacy of language, and the other is the uncritical trust in the strained attitude of introspection as the basis for epistemology. But since the life-time of Plato nearly two and a half thousand years have intervened, including the continuous activity of European philosophic thought, pagan, Christian, secular. It is widely held that a stable, wellknown philosophic vocabulary has been elaborated, and that in philosophic discussion any straying beyond its limits introduces neologisms, unnecessary and therefore to be regretted. This alleged fact requires examination. In the first place, if the allegation be true, it is very remarkable. It decisively places philosophy apart from the more special sciences. Modern mathematics, most secure and authoritative of sciences, is largely written in verbal and symbolic phrases which would have been unintelligible eighty years ago. In modern physics the old words, where they are still used, convey different meanings, and the new words are abundant. But it is futile to make a catalogue of the sciences accompanied by this refrain. The conclusion is obvious to the most cursory inspection. 99
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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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