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Existence & being
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How can you talk about non-being without turning it into a something?
Every morning I practise taiji in the park and every evening I read a few lines of the Laozi with my grandson's dictionary. Chapter 40 says, roughly, that the things of the world are born from being, and being is born from…
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Bundle theory or bare particulars: which embarrassment would you rather live with?
I tutor logic and keep running into this in tutoring sessions, so I'd like to hear people argue it properly. Bundle theory: an object is nothing but a bundle of properties. There is no underlying thing that "has" the redness and the…
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Where do Zhu Xi’s li and qi fall in the substance-versus-process divide?
I recently saw a comparative table that sorted traditions by their answer to "what is real?". It placed Neo-Confucianism under "pattern and material force, inseparable in every thing" and left it outside the neat line it drew between substance traditions (Aristotle, Vedānta,…
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