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All the ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'reports' and 'Reflections on Knowledge, Truth and Ideas'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / D. Definition / 1. Definitions

19426

'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge

19424

Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive [Leibniz]

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

5517	Individuals don't exist, but are conventional names for sets of elements [Buddha]

18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas

19427

True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions [Leibniz]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

7903	The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause

19425

In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz]

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

7600	The Buddha believed the gods would eventually disappear, and Nirvana was much higher [Buddha, by Armstrong,K]

7601	Life is suffering, from which only compassion, gentleness, truth and sobriety can save us [Buddha]