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quote:no-evidence-for-a-self-separate-from-the-worldno evidence for a self separate from the world.
Key takeaway from the argument.
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extracted_from(2026) · Lars Sandved-Smith · Chris Fields · Thomas Doctor · Ruben Laukkonen +1
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- Translates the formal impossibility into phenomenological terms.
- Subjective corollary of the boundary unmeasurability claim.
- The subjective consequence of the formal impossibility: a separate self cannot be empirically evidenced.
- Title of the paper, encapsulating its central claim.
- The making of a living world cannot be separated from each person's search for the true self.claim0.807The enigmatic conclusion that the most personal, inward search yields the most public, functional harmony.
- Generalises the core result via Corollary 3.2 of Fields & Glazebrook (2023) to ground Buddhist teaching that all dharmas are empty
- Vasubandhu's argument against the existence of an independent self in Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya.