Apoha
Buddhist Nominalism and Human Cognition
When we understand that something is a pot, is it because of one property that all pots share? This seems unlikely, but without this common essence, it is difficult to see how we could teach someone to use the word pot or to see something as a pot. The Buddhist apoha theory tries to resolve this dilemma, first, by rejecting properties such as potness and, then, by claiming that the element uniting all pots is their very difference from all non-pots. In other words, when we seek out a pot, we select an object that is not a non-pot, and we repeat this practice with all other items and expressions.Writing from the vantage points of history, phil…
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Weitere Autoren: Tillemans, Tom (Hrsg.) / Chakrabarti, Arindam (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-52738-5
- EAN: 9780231527385
- Produktnummer: 22650614
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 17'063 KB
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Edited by Mark Siderits, Tom Tillemans, and Arindam Chakrabarti
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