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Introduction | 1 | |
1 | The motive and method of rational inquiry | 7 |
1.1 | Early recognition of a 'practice of reason' | 7 |
1.2 | Rationality in the Nyayasutra | 10 |
1.3 | Rationality and the ends of life | 15 |
1.4 | Perception | 17 |
1.5 | Mind, attention and the soul | 22 |
1.6 | Rationality and extrapolation | 25 |
1.7 | Rationality and debate | 28 |
1.8 | Reason, scripture and testimony | 35 |
1.9 | Reason's checks and balances | 37 |
2 | Rationality, emptiness and the objective view | 42 |
2.1 | Thought and reality | 42 |
2.2 | Emptiness and the objective view | 43 |
2.3 | Rationality in Madhyamaka | 47 |
2.4 | On causation | 51 |
2.5 | The impossibility of proof | 58 |
2.6 | A new paradox of motion | 63 |
2.7 | Self-refutation | 66 |
3 | The rational basis of metaphysics | 71 |
3.1 | Order in nature | 71 |
3.2 | The categorial hierarchy | 72 |
3.3 | The structure of the world | 77 |
3.4 | The taxonomy of natural kinds | 79 |
3.5 | Absence as a type of entity | 82 |
3.6 | Higher-order absence | 85 |
3.7 | Navya-Nyaya logic | 89 |
3.8 | Number | 91 |
4 | Reduction, exclusion and rational reconstruction | 97 |
4.1 | How to practice poverty in metaphysics | 97 |
4.2 | A skeletal ontology | 98 |
4.3 | Marking and similarity | 100 |
4.4 | The role of language in conceptual construction | 104 |
4.5 | The exclusion theory of meaning | 106 |
4.6 | Sentence meaning | 111 |
4.7 | Conditions on rational extrapolation | 114 |
4.8 | Reasoning from specifics | 118 |
4.9 | Are reason-target relations law-like? | 121 |
4.10 | The problem of grounding | 123 |
5 | Rationality, harmony and perspective | 128 |
5.1 | A rationality of reconciliation | 128 |
5.2 | The many-sided nature of things | 128 |
5.3 | Disagreement defused | 130 |
5.4 | The epistemology of perspective | 134 |
5.5 | The logic of assertion | 137 |
5.6 | Assertion and the unassertible | 141 |
5.7 | The mark of a good reason | 144 |
5.8 | Integration and complete knowledge | 147 |
6 | Reason in equilibrium | 151 |
6.1 | Reason and the management of doubt | 151 |
6.2 | The burden of proof | 153 |
6.3 | Criteria for rational rejection | 155 |
6.4 | Supposition and pretence | 158 |
6.5 | A new doxastic ascent | 159 |
6.6 | Epistemic equilibrium | 162 |
Notes | 169 | |
Texts | 184 | |
Bibliography | 192 | |
Index | 203 |
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