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All the ideas for 'Buddhacarita', 'On Fate ('De fato')' and 'Presupposition'

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8 ideas

4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 3. Term Logic

19053

Logic would be more natural if negation only referred to predicates [Dummett]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

21677

How can the not-true fail to be false, or the not-false fail to be true? [Cicero]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / c. not

19052

Natural language 'not' doesn't apply to sentences [Dummett]

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]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

21667

Oratory and philosophy are closely allied; orators borrow from philosophy, and ornament it [Cicero]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility

21678

If desire is not in our power then neither are choices, so we should not be praised or punished [Cicero]

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]