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| Preface | |
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| The Necessity of Interreligious Apologetics | |
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| The Principle of the Necessity of Interreligious Apologetics | |
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| Religious Communities and Their Representative Intellectuals | |
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| Doctrine-Expressing Sentences | |
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| Alien Religious Claims | |
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| Interreligious Apologetics as a Duty | |
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| A Brief Comment on Salvation | |
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| The Properties of Doctrine-Expressing Sentences | |
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| The Comprehensibility of Doctrine-Expressing Sentences | |
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| The Commensurability of Doctrine-Expressing Sentences | |
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| The Cognitive Content of Doctrine-Expressing Sentences | |
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| Conceptual Relativism | |
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| Experiential Expressivism | |
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| Rule Theory | |
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| Incompatibility among Doctrine-Expressing Sentences | |
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| Universalist Perspectivalism | |
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| Esotericist Perspectivalism | |
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| The Varieties of Mystical Experience | |
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| The Cognitive Value of the Varieties of Mystical Experience | |
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| The Rejection of Positive Apologetics | |
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| The Argument from Negative Effect | |
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| The Argument That Success Is Impossible | |
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| The Argument That Positive Apologetics Is Unnecessary for the Preservation of Epistemic Respectability | |
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| An Excursus on the Case of the Pumpkinites | |
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| The Argument that Positive Apologetics is Unnecessary for the Preservation of Ethical Respectability | |
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| The Argument That Positive Apologetics Is Idolatry | |
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| Proper Apologetics | |
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| The Political Context | |
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| The Expectations of the Apologist | |
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| Community-Specific, Self-Guaranteeing Authority Sources | |
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| Apologetics in Action: Buddhists and Christians on Selves | |
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| A Buddhist Rejection of the Self | |
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| A Buddhist Description of the Person | |
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| A Christian Description of the Person as Embodied Soul | |
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| A Christian-Buddhist Apologetic on Selves and Persons | |
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| Bibliography | |