Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Intrinsic Quality of Experience', 'Buddhacarita' and 'On Freedom'

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8 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency
5040 Necessary truths can be analysed into original truths; contingent truths are infinitely analysable [Leibniz]
10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 2. A Priori Contingent
13159 Only God sees contingent truths a priori [Leibniz]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / e. Possible Objects
5039 If non-existents are possible, their existence would replace what now exists, which cannot therefore be necessary [Leibniz]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / b. Qualia and intentionality
8130 Qualities of experience are just representational aspects of experience ('Representationalism') [Harman, by Burge]
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]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections
5041 God does everything in a perfect way, and never acts contrary to reason [Leibniz]
29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism
7905 The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha]
7904 The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha]