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**AnriXuinriZ** · 07-03-2011, 06:51 PM

Western (Greek) logic is a bit younger than the Pali suttas, and the suttas arose in a vastly different culture. That makes interpreting the texts in their original context more difficult, as we're prone to looking at the world through modern, Western, post-Scientific Enlightenment lenses. Richard Gombrich and Mark Siderits have done the subject very well, though.

Buddhism doesn't fit comfortably into the Western definitions of either Philosophy or Religion. Recently, though, the field of Experimental Philosophy has been developing, and I think that might be the best category for Buddhism.

Why are you specifying informal fallacies, if I might ask?

07-03-2011, 06:51 PM	#2
AnriXuinriZ Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 434 Senior Member	Western (Greek) logic is a bit younger than the Pali suttas, and the suttas arose in a vastly different culture. That makes interpreting the texts in their original context more difficult, as we're prone to looking at the world through modern, Western, post-Scientific Enlightenment lenses. Richard Gombrich and Mark Siderits have done the subject very well, though. Buddhism doesn't fit comfortably into the Western definitions of either Philosophy or Religion. Recently, though, the field of Experimental Philosophy has been developing, and I think that might be the best category for Buddhism. Why are you specifying informal fallacies, if I might ask?
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