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LOGICAL ANALYSES OF VIPASSANĀ MEDITATION
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Hertogh, C. P.
- 학회/출판사/기관명Taylor & Francis
- 출판년도2018
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기CONTEMPORARY BUDDHISM
- 발행사항Vol.19No.2[2018]_x000D_
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- 소개/요약In this paper we propose logical analyses of Vipassanā Meditation as modus ponens or universal instantiation, as based upon identification, analysis, and interpretation of the meditation as a (spiritual) thought experiment (STE like e.g. huàtóus and kōans in Chan and Zen).* The analyses consist in completing the unfinished enthymematic argument of the Sutta-nipāta by explication of hidden major. We speculate the thought experiment inference might be brought about by a faculty like mindfulness. The thought experiment analyses link the meditation to global cross-cultural theories and arguments in philosophy as Ibn Sīnā’s Flying Man and, notably, René Descartes’s Cogito. Last, we will give some indications how Vipassanā Medi
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