Ernest Billings BREWSTER
Biographic Data
| ID | 9729498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ernest Billings BREWSTER |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ernest Billings |
| FAMILY NAME | BREWSTER |
| SIGNATURE | BREWSTER E B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Social Anthropology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Fist Is Indistinguishable from Five Clenched Fingers
Mereological anti-realism denies the intrinsic reality of both composite wholes and their constituent parts. This paper analyzes the mereological anti-realist argumentation developed by the Sino-Parthian scholar-monk Jizang 吉藏 (549–623 CE) targeting the mereological realist doctrine of the Brāhmaṇical Vaiśeṣika tradition in his understudied Exegesis on the Middle Treatise (Zhongguan lun shu中觀論疏) and Exegesis on the Hundred Verse Treatise (Bailun …
Survivability
This paper presents the doctrinal argumentation on the continuity of the life of an individual sentient being found in the Abhidharma Buddhist texts translated by Xuanzang and his Tang Dynasty (618-907) collaborators. Vasubandhu, in the Treasury of the Abhidharma, and Saghabhadra, in his two commentaries on this text, the Abhidharma Treatise Conforming to the Correct Logic, and the Treatise Clarifying Abhidharma Tenets, enlist the doctrines of th…
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Survivability
This paper presents the doctrinal argumentation on the continuity of the life of an individual sentient being found in the Abhidharma Buddhist texts translated by Xuanzang and his Tang Dynasty (618-907) collaborators. Vasubandhu, in the Treasury of the Abhidharma, and Saghabhadra, in his two commentaries on this text, the Abhidharma Treatise Conforming to the Correct Logic, and the Treatise Clarifying Abhidharma Tenets, enlist the doctrines of th…
The Fist Is Indistinguishable from Five Clenched Fingers
Mereological anti-realism denies the intrinsic reality of both composite wholes and their constituent parts. This paper analyzes the mereological anti-realist argumentation developed by the Sino-Parthian scholar-monk Jizang 吉藏 (549–623 CE) targeting the mereological realist doctrine of the Brāhmaṇical Vaiśeṣika tradition in his understudied Exegesis on the Middle Treatise (Zhongguan lun shu中觀論疏) and Exegesis on the Hundred Verse Treatise (Bailun …
Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (2 works) · Argumentation theory (1 work) · Buddhism (1 work) · Computer network (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Doctrine (1 work) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (1 work) · Mereology (1 work) · Metaphysics (1 work)