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All the ideas for 'Buddhacarita', 'Two Problems for Essentialism' and 'Knowledge and its Limits'

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6 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

4760	Belief aims at knowledge (rather than truth), and mere believing is a kind of botched knowing [Williamson]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 7. Knowledge First

19512

Don't analyse knowledge; use knowledge to analyse other concepts in epistemology [Williamson, by DeRose]

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 / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / e. Anti scientific essentialism

5492	How can essences generate the right powers to vary with distance between objects? [Armstrong]

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

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

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