Philosophy East and West, October 1st, 1997
An examination of early Buddhist reductionism suggests that reductionism entails a number of metaphysical commitments, such as an extremely nominalistic semantics, a theory of truth that distinguishes ultimate and conventional truths, and an ontological commitment to the ineffable pure particular as ultimately real. Derek Parfit has acknowledged early Buddhism as an anticipation of his own version of reductionism, but he has not explored the tradition's conclusions as to reductionism's ontological consequences. Those who regard early Buddhism as eliminativist are mistaken.
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