- Candrakīrti(as the main philosopher being discussed)
- An Indian Buddhist philosopher from around the 600s CE who wrote detailed commentaries on Buddhist logic and metaphysics, particularly focusing on the idea that nothing has a permanent, independent essence.
- Coherently(as describing how these functions work together)
- In a way that is logically consistent and doesn't contradict itself.
- External standard(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
- An independent measure or rule outside yourself that you can use to check whether something is true or false.
- Mind-only doctrines(The theory being criticized in the statement)
- A philosophical view that argues only the mind and its thoughts truly exist, and that the physical world outside our minds might be an illusion or mental creation.
- Non-veridical experience(contrasted with veridical experience)
- An experience that doesn't match reality, like when you have a false belief, a hallucination, or a dream.
- Prasannapadā(as the specific work being discussed)
- The title of a famous commentary (literally 'Clear Words') that Candrakīrti wrote to explain Buddhist philosophy, particularly the idea that everything depends on other things to exist.
- Self-undermining(in logic and argument)
- When an idea or rule contradicts itself or destroys the very thing it's trying to achieve.
- idealism(Presented as a consequence of the coherence theory of truth, but not exclusive to it)
- The view that one's beliefs constitute the world
- veridical experience(Used to argue that two observers representing a tomato's motion differently can both perceive correctly)
- A perceptual experience that accurately represents its object; a perception is veridical if it correctly captures some true relational property of the perceived object, even if that property differs from the relational property captured by another observer's veridical experience