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• The progress of Logos
• “The Conflict Thesis” (2022)
• Draper thinks faith doesn’t change
• Animals use “expressed reasoning” (speech)
• Progress in the arts versus science
• Does philosophy progress?
• No Medieval progress?
• Medieval view of progress
• Law of the Excluded Middle (~350 BC–1908)
• Law of Non-Contradiction (~350 BC–)
• “How Aristotle Created the Computer” (2017)
• Aristotle’s axioms
• Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought (1971)
• Conceptualisation is the opposite of freedom
• Pyrrhonism is pragmatic, and opposes antilogies
• Dukkha and sukha
• History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874)
• “Of a Monstrous Child” (1578–80)
• Science makes no metaphysical progress
• Sn 4.11: Quarrels and Disputes
• Papanca connected with sense-perception
• Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961)
• Bruno Latour (1947–)
• Henri Bergson (1859–1941)
• Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
• Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)
• Iain McGilchrist (1953–)
• Heraclitus (545–475 BC)
• Martin Heidegger (1890–1976)
• William James (1842–1910)
• Robert M. Pirsig (1928–2017)
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
• Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950)
• Process Philosophy
• Reasoning arises in the indexical and the social
• Greek Buddha (2015)
• Problem of Induction, Criterion, Differentia, Universals
• Adoxastous: “without views”
• Pyrrhonism links ataraxia and scepticism
• Timon of Phlius (320–235 BC)
• Pyrrhonism (360 BC–210 AD) influenced by Ajnana (500 BC)
• Pyrrhonism (~300 BC–210)
• Ataraxia
• Plato divides forms from senses
• Shaking off every philosophical view
• Digha Nikaya/DN: Collection of Long Discourses
• DN 1: The All-Embracing Net of Views
• Remain evasive, dull, and stupid
• Buddha against metaphysics
• Causality and teleology are both illusions
• Only perception is clear; concepts are at best distinct
• Philosophy should write to concepts, not read from them
• WWR Volume II (1844)
• Hume’s false scepticism about causality
• Philosophy uses concepts too widely
• Concepts can never contain more than the perceptions from which they are drawn
• Causality applies only to physics, not metaphysics
• The inadequacy of pure naturalism comes from empiricism
• Sensualism: No a priori
• How God Becomes Real (2022)
• Humans are “wildly anthropomorphic”
• The phenomenal world is a deception
• Pyrrhonists seek sensations
• On extirpating vanity
• Tolstoy’s Diaries Volume 1 (1847–1895)
• Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783)
• Difficulty of Kant’s first critique
• Hume only questioned the origin of causality
• Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787)
• David Hume (1711–1776)
• Of National Characters (1748, 1777)
• WP550: On causality
• Mazviita Chirimuuta (~1984–)
• “The Critical Difference Between Holism and Vitalism in Cassirer’s Philosophy of Science” (2023)
• Goethe: Form is Bildung, not Gestalt
• Pascal Boyer (~1954-)
• “Religion: Bound to Believe?” (2008)
• Nibbana is no craving, conceit, views
• Problem of the Criterion (200–)
• Infinite regress arguments
• Skillful understanding (kusalata)
• The Buddha, Pyrrho, and Hume
• Samyutta Nikaya/SN: Connected Discourses
• SN 1.25: A Perfected One
• Mere expressions
• MN 18: The Honeyball Sutta
• No delight, assertion, clinging to papanca
• Words as servants
• Honeyball Sutta and papanca
• Worldling with the grain, arahant against
• Arahant
• Two truths in Buddhism
• Words as signposts

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