[MD] Wanted: A proper foundation

[MarshaV]

At 01:11 AM 2/5/2009, you wrote:
>It won't come all at once like an epiphany.  But your philosophical 
>reading will help to shape your concepts.  I'm not academically 
>trained in philosophy, either, though I've been studying it for 
>several decades. Buddhism and Taoism, properly translated, will give 
>you some pretty prose which may put you in touch with your feelings, 
>but you won't learn philosophy from it, at least not in the logical, 
>dialectical sense.


Ham,

This is just not true.  I don't know about Toaism, but Buddhism has a 
very long tradition of logical debate.

"This article presents the formal background to Buddhist logic which 
started at about 500 CE in ancient India and still has a living 
tradition in the Tibetan Gelug order. Like the logic of Aristotle, 
ancient Indian logic is a highly formal system although it has not 
been developed in a context of a symbolic language."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_logic




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