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**rfceicizgm** · 05-15-2011, 10:18 PM

Greetings daverupa:
That's your inferential assumption, not the questions (or mine). That's why each sentence begins with "If...."

"If..."...merely stands up the Straw Man.

Centric to what? Give a kid a hammer, and everything is a nail. Same is true for folks who fancy themselves philosophers.

& there's absolutely no overlap...or enough overlap to matter, ever? Get The Quickly to the Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta.

Lack of ontology where? Among the philosophers I listed? In the Buddha's teachings. The Buddha pointed out that there are problems with the way we view the world and act in the world which tend to cause ourselves and others misery. And offered some useful suggestions to view the world differently and act differently in order to alleviate these problems. This does not require any sort of ontology, metaphysics, cosmologies, or any other sort of superstitions.

05-15-2011, 10:18 PM	#11
rfceicizgm Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 479 Senior Member	Greetings daverupa: That's your inferential assumption, not the questions (or mine). That's why each sentence begins with "If...." "If..."...merely stands up the Straw Man. Centric to what? Give a kid a hammer, and everything is a nail. Same is true for folks who fancy themselves philosophers. & there's absolutely no overlap...or enough overlap to matter, ever? Get The Quickly to the Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta. Lack of ontology where? Among the philosophers I listed? In the Buddha's teachings. The Buddha pointed out that there are problems with the way we view the world and act in the world which tend to cause ourselves and others misery. And offered some useful suggestions to view the world differently and act differently in order to alleviate these problems. This does not require any sort of ontology, metaphysics, cosmologies, or any other sort of superstitions.
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