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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Comparative Philosophy of Religions | |
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| Disciplinary Challenges | |
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| A Grammar for Comparison | |
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| Comparative Philosophy of Religions | |
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| Content, Structure, and Arguments | |
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| Epistemology | |
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| Religious Epistemology in Classical India: In Defense of a Hindu God | |
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| Interpreting Ny&abar;ya Epistemology | |
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| The Ny&abar;ya Argument for the Existence of &Ibar;śvara | |
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| Defending the Ny&abar;ya Argument | |
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| Conclusion: Shifting the Burden of Proof | |
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| Against &Ibar;śvara: Ratnak&ibar;rti's Buddhist Critique | |
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| The Section on Pervasion: The Trouble with Natural Relations | |
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| Two Arguments | |
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| The Section on the Reason Property | |
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| The Section on the Target Property | |
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| Conclusion: Is &Ibar;śvara the Maker of the World? | |
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| Language, Mind, and Ontology | |
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| The Theory of Exclusion, Conceptual Content, and Buddhist Epistemology | |
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| The Theory of Exclusion | |
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| What Exclusion Is Not | |
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| Semantic Value | |
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| Ratnak&ibar;rti's Inferential Argument | |
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| Conclusion: J�&abar;naśr&ibar;mitra's Three Questions | |
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| Ratnak&ibar;rti's World: Toward a Buddhist Philosophy of Everything | |
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| An Inventory of Mental Objects/Images | |
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| The Contents of Perception | |
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| The Contents of Inferential/Verbal Awareness | |
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| Nonexistence, Existence, and Ultimate Existence | |
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| The &Ibar;śvara-Inference, Revisited | |
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| Conclusion: Who Created the World? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Values of Buddhist Epistemology | |
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| Foundational Figures and Foundational Texts | |
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| The Soteriological Significance of Epistemology | |
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| J�&abar;naśr&ibar;mitra on Epistemology as Pedagogy | |
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| Ratnak&ibar;rti's Framework of Value | |
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| Conclusion: Religious Reasoning as Religious Practice | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |