Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Buddhacarita', 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge' and 'The Same F'

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6 ideas

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

12155

Statements of 'relative identity' are really statements of resemblance [Perry]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self

7906	When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

15251

The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7904	The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha]

7905	The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha]