Epistemology – To Understand Buddhism, First Understand Epistemology

19. Epistemology (x) The Wordless Flower Sermon

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18. Epistemology (ix) Direct Perception – How Buddha Knows What He Knows

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17. Epistemology (viii) The Five Aggregates (iv): Fulfilling Buddha’s Soteriological Goal

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16. Epistemology (vii) The Five Aggregates (iii) Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing

According to this Wikipedia article, Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing “is a question about the reason for basic existence which has been raised or commented…

15. Epistemology (vi) The Five Aggregates (ii) The Observer Effect

This post discusses the Observer Effect. The Observer Effect is associated with the Double-Slit Experiment and was discovered in 1801 by the British polymath Thomas…

14. Epistemology (v) The Kalama Sutta

Following our discussion of the inferentially connected nature of word-based knowledge from latter-day epistemology and the Buddhist perspective in the previous two posts, we now…

13. Epistemology (iv) The Five Aggregates (i) – The Origin Of An Observer-Dependent Universe

This post discusses Buddha’s doctrine of the Five Aggregates, the Buddhist equivalent to the five steps of sensing, discussed in the previous post.  The significance…

12.Epistemology (iii) – Inference-How Humanity Knows What It Knows

As this Wikipedia article states, “Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called the theory of knowledge, it…

11. Epistemology (ii) – A Mind-Body Problem?

The discussion on epistemology begins with the so-called Mind-Body Problem. The Mind-Body Problem is a Problem that “has been a central issue in philosophy of mind since…