Classical Logic and the Curry–Howard Correspondence
... extract the algorithmic content of those proofs, yielding programs in e.g. ML or Haskell.3 2 http://coq.inria.fr 3 One particularly impressive case is the CompCert compiler — a C compiler for MacOS X entirely verified in Coq. See http://compcert.inria.fr. ...
... extract the algorithmic content of those proofs, yielding programs in e.g. ML or Haskell.3 2 http://coq.inria.fr 3 One particularly impressive case is the CompCert compiler — a C compiler for MacOS X entirely verified in Coq. See http://compcert.inria.fr. ...
Tradition and Change: Two Buddhisms in the Bible
... Burmese Buddhist monks confront Americanization and how they have had to adjust their lifestyles to remain loyal to their monastic code. The other two changes involve white Americans. They are referred to as just “American” from here on. The American Buddhist practice of “reduction” means that Thera ...
... Burmese Buddhist monks confront Americanization and how they have had to adjust their lifestyles to remain loyal to their monastic code. The other two changes involve white Americans. They are referred to as just “American” from here on. The American Buddhist practice of “reduction” means that Thera ...
Buddhism In Thailand
... With such an agreement, the place and the persons who were to participate in this great undertaking had been proposed and carefully selected. The cave of Sattapanna, of Vebhara mountain in the town of Rajagaha, was finally chosen and the participants, according to general agreement, were to be the B ...
... With such an agreement, the place and the persons who were to participate in this great undertaking had been proposed and carefully selected. The cave of Sattapanna, of Vebhara mountain in the town of Rajagaha, was finally chosen and the participants, according to general agreement, were to be the B ...
Jeffrey Hopkins. Emptiness in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism:
... [Just] as it is hard to pull a steel bow to its full extent but if one can, the arrow will course over a great area, so even the words not to consider the meaning of this text are difficult to understand but, when understood, yield great insight. The metaphor states a martial challenge to the re ...
... [Just] as it is hard to pull a steel bow to its full extent but if one can, the arrow will course over a great area, so even the words not to consider the meaning of this text are difficult to understand but, when understood, yield great insight. The metaphor states a martial challenge to the re ...
Basic Logic and Fregean Set Theory - MSCS
... It appears that classical mathematics and logic is just one of several useful extensions of constructive logic. There are of course also variations on constructive logic, if only by just making up arbitrary rules for the logical constants. Most, but not all, of these are utterly useless. Logics that ...
... It appears that classical mathematics and logic is just one of several useful extensions of constructive logic. There are of course also variations on constructive logic, if only by just making up arbitrary rules for the logical constants. Most, but not all, of these are utterly useless. Logics that ...
Rhetorical Analysis
... Rhetoric: the art of speaking or writing to communicate effectively or persuasively; the skill in delivering a message through a given medium (nonfiction, fiction, film, image, cartoon, speech (oration), television, etc.) Analysis: picking apart the pieces of a whole to unveil its elements; identifi ...
... Rhetoric: the art of speaking or writing to communicate effectively or persuasively; the skill in delivering a message through a given medium (nonfiction, fiction, film, image, cartoon, speech (oration), television, etc.) Analysis: picking apart the pieces of a whole to unveil its elements; identifi ...
Zen Buddhism and Persian Culture, V1
... 3. 2 The Record of the Buddhist Monasteries of Luoyang 洛陽伽藍記(Ch: Luòyáng Qiélánjì; Jp: Rakuyō-garan-ki) 3. 2. 1 Bibliography This was compiled in 547 by his wife a writer and translator of Mahāyāna Buddhist texts into the Chinese language. Western scholar Broughton (1999:55) dates Bodhidharma's pres ...
... 3. 2 The Record of the Buddhist Monasteries of Luoyang 洛陽伽藍記(Ch: Luòyáng Qiélánjì; Jp: Rakuyō-garan-ki) 3. 2. 1 Bibliography This was compiled in 547 by his wife a writer and translator of Mahāyāna Buddhist texts into the Chinese language. Western scholar Broughton (1999:55) dates Bodhidharma's pres ...
THE FOUR ASSEMBLIES AND THERAVA.DA BUDDHISM 104). 1
... teaching that the four assemblies- bhikkhus, bhikkhunis, male lay disciples, and female lay disciples- are the necessary foundation for the Buddha's teaching to thrive. ThesP two developments are the revival of lay meditation and the revival of vhikkhuni ordination. The Four Assemblies According to ...
... teaching that the four assemblies- bhikkhus, bhikkhunis, male lay disciples, and female lay disciples- are the necessary foundation for the Buddha's teaching to thrive. ThesP two developments are the revival of lay meditation and the revival of vhikkhuni ordination. The Four Assemblies According to ...
Reductio ad Absurdum Argumentation in Normal Logic
... Ever since the beginning of Logic Programming the scientific community has formally define, in several ways, the meaning, the semantics of a Logic Program. Several semantics were defined, some 2-valued, some 3-valued, and even multi-valued semantics. The current standard 2-valued semantics for Norma ...
... Ever since the beginning of Logic Programming the scientific community has formally define, in several ways, the meaning, the semantics of a Logic Program. Several semantics were defined, some 2-valued, some 3-valued, and even multi-valued semantics. The current standard 2-valued semantics for Norma ...
Reincarnation in the East Chandler Barber Oriental/Eastern
... or declining in status of the reincarnation until you reach the last stage in which you will no longer be reincarnated into another life. The goal of this paper is to examine the process of reincarnation as well as compare and contrast reincarnation in Hinduism and Buddhism, More specifically to sta ...
... or declining in status of the reincarnation until you reach the last stage in which you will no longer be reincarnated into another life. The goal of this paper is to examine the process of reincarnation as well as compare and contrast reincarnation in Hinduism and Buddhism, More specifically to sta ...
Is Buddhism the low fertility religion of Asia?
... through enlightenment or attaining Nirvana, a liberating state of mind, with no further rebirths (Hosaka and Nagayasu 1993; Gombrich 2006). Note, however, that some see procreation as necessary for those who still have some bad karma to be reincarnated and reduce this debt in their next rebirth (Fau ...
... through enlightenment or attaining Nirvana, a liberating state of mind, with no further rebirths (Hosaka and Nagayasu 1993; Gombrich 2006). Note, however, that some see procreation as necessary for those who still have some bad karma to be reincarnated and reduce this debt in their next rebirth (Fau ...
Leader Resource 1 - eternallycompelling.org
... eminence: more commentaries have been written about it than about any other sutra. In this sutra, the Buddha himself, here called the Shakyamuni Buddha (meaning, “The Buddha of the clan of Shakya”) or the Thus Come One (one of his many honorific titles), is teaching. The Lotus Sutra is the main insp ...
... eminence: more commentaries have been written about it than about any other sutra. In this sutra, the Buddha himself, here called the Shakyamuni Buddha (meaning, “The Buddha of the clan of Shakya”) or the Thus Come One (one of his many honorific titles), is teaching. The Lotus Sutra is the main insp ...
SECOND-ORDER LOGIC, OR - University of Chicago Math
... pleases. It can be any cardinality.2 Call a first-order language with a set K of non-logical symbols L1K. If it has equality, call it L1K =. A set of symbols alone is insufficient for making a meaningful language; we also need to know how we can put those symbols together. Just as we cannot say in E ...
... pleases. It can be any cardinality.2 Call a first-order language with a set K of non-logical symbols L1K. If it has equality, call it L1K =. A set of symbols alone is insufficient for making a meaningful language; we also need to know how we can put those symbols together. Just as we cannot say in E ...
Knowledge Representation: Logic
... divided into point-like, line-like and so on. Addition of a new component may be then achieved by adding a new subclass, but it can be impossible, for example for street names. We may as well express the content of the map using logic and add new components by introducing new predicates. Wojciech Ja ...
... divided into point-like, line-like and so on. Addition of a new component may be then achieved by adding a new subclass, but it can be impossible, for example for street names. We may as well express the content of the map using logic and add new components by introducing new predicates. Wojciech Ja ...
The Complexity of Local Stratification - SUrface
... of the registers and initial value of the program counter, is IT~-complete. There are a variety of ways of showing this. Now translate the nondeterministic finite-register programs into (hi-Hom) definite clause programs, by the method of Shepherdson in [Sh91]. (The translation of choice instructions ...
... of the registers and initial value of the program counter, is IT~-complete. There are a variety of ways of showing this. Now translate the nondeterministic finite-register programs into (hi-Hom) definite clause programs, by the method of Shepherdson in [Sh91]. (The translation of choice instructions ...
BUDDHISM AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
... negotiations, appropriations, and impositions between colonizers and Asians, officials and scholars, lay and monastic Buddhists. These groups emphasized aspects of Buddhism that were consonant with modern forms of rationality. In other words, Europeans did not “invent” Buddhism, but processes of mod ...
... negotiations, appropriations, and impositions between colonizers and Asians, officials and scholars, lay and monastic Buddhists. These groups emphasized aspects of Buddhism that were consonant with modern forms of rationality. In other words, Europeans did not “invent” Buddhism, but processes of mod ...
PARADOX AND INTUITION
... In general, a paradox is a result of a clash of beliefs which can not be simultaneously held. Thus, when we meet a paradox, we feel obliged to modify some of our beliefs. This is what we mean by saying that paradoxes are modifiers of intuition. ...
... In general, a paradox is a result of a clash of beliefs which can not be simultaneously held. Thus, when we meet a paradox, we feel obliged to modify some of our beliefs. This is what we mean by saying that paradoxes are modifiers of intuition. ...
Week One: The story of the Historical Buddha and its symbolic
... there to believed, they are there to be lived. So let’s now begin to unpack those ennobling truths to see how we can relate them to our own lives and hopefully learn ways in which we can let go into direct experience. The first truth realised by the Buddha was that of mental anguish. This is the ult ...
... there to believed, they are there to be lived. So let’s now begin to unpack those ennobling truths to see how we can relate them to our own lives and hopefully learn ways in which we can let go into direct experience. The first truth realised by the Buddha was that of mental anguish. This is the ult ...
Print this article - Journal of Global Buddhism
... While Buddhism in the West is said to be booming, this is neither equally true for all countries nor necessarily measurable by traditional membership mappings. Statistics and results from ten years of mapping Buddhism in Denmark2 only show an increase of members because of methodological changes in ...
... While Buddhism in the West is said to be booming, this is neither equally true for all countries nor necessarily measurable by traditional membership mappings. Statistics and results from ten years of mapping Buddhism in Denmark2 only show an increase of members because of methodological changes in ...
Buddhism — Key Stage 1
... to these three elements covered in separate chapters, the textbook also includes ten selected Buddhist stories, which are to serve as additional aids to help the pupils gain a better grasp of Buddhist principles and see their application in various contexts. The accompanying Pupil’s Workbook contain ...
... to these three elements covered in separate chapters, the textbook also includes ten selected Buddhist stories, which are to serve as additional aids to help the pupils gain a better grasp of Buddhist principles and see their application in various contexts. The accompanying Pupil’s Workbook contain ...
The Criteria of Goodness in the P¯ ali Nik¯
... nirvanic virtues. The problem is that many Buddhists, at least at the beginning of their spiritual practice, act morally not so much motivated by nirvanic virtues, but rather by nonnirvanic virtues such as craving for a proximate goal such as a good rebirth. Even practitioners who act ethically aimi ...
... nirvanic virtues. The problem is that many Buddhists, at least at the beginning of their spiritual practice, act morally not so much motivated by nirvanic virtues, but rather by nonnirvanic virtues such as craving for a proximate goal such as a good rebirth. Even practitioners who act ethically aimi ...
Slides
... relations between individuals. E.g. “Bill is tall” • Generalizations, patterns, regularities can’t easily be represented. E.g., all triangles have 3 sides • First-Order Logic (abbreviated FOL or FOPC) is expressive enough to concisely represent this kind of situation. FOL adds relations, variables, ...
... relations between individuals. E.g. “Bill is tall” • Generalizations, patterns, regularities can’t easily be represented. E.g., all triangles have 3 sides • First-Order Logic (abbreviated FOL or FOPC) is expressive enough to concisely represent this kind of situation. FOL adds relations, variables, ...
Damming the Dhamma: Problems with Bhikkhunãs in the Pali Vinaya
... Repeatedly in this episode the narrative stresses the concept of purity: the ÒtrueÓ brahman is devoid of àsavas and protrusions (ussada) that impinge on the world (Mahàvagga I 2); both the nàga king and the catuddisa kings protect the Buddha from defilement (the nàga from the elements; the catuddisa ...
... Repeatedly in this episode the narrative stresses the concept of purity: the ÒtrueÓ brahman is devoid of àsavas and protrusions (ussada) that impinge on the world (Mahàvagga I 2); both the nàga king and the catuddisa kings protect the Buddha from defilement (the nàga from the elements; the catuddisa ...
A Prologue to the Theory of Deduction
... (Formulae are of course of the grammatical category of propositions.) Our derivation may have uncancelled hypotheses. That will be seen by t’s having possibly a free variable x, which codes an occurrence of a formula A as hypothesis; i.e. we have x : A, an x of type A. All this makes conclusions pr ...
... (Formulae are of course of the grammatical category of propositions.) Our derivation may have uncancelled hypotheses. That will be seen by t’s having possibly a free variable x, which codes an occurrence of a formula A as hypothesis; i.e. we have x : A, an x of type A. All this makes conclusions pr ...