- Apperception(Kantian epistemology)
- Self-consciousness; in Kant's usage, the unity of self-awareness that is itself conditioned by the categories of pure understanding.
- Causal sequence(as used in understanding how actions happen)
- A chain of events where one thing causes the next thing to happen, like dominoes falling one after another.
- Conceptual proliferation(as a stage in Buddhist explanation of how simple sensations become complex thoughts)
- When your mind starts spinning out lots of thoughts, ideas, and stories about something—like seeing a stranger and immediately thinking about where they might be from, what they might want, etc.
- Functional differentiation(describing the distinct roles of contact, feeling, and other mental stages)
- The idea that different parts or stages serve different purposes and work separately from each other—like how your eyes, ears, and nose each do their own specific job.
- Madhupiṇḍika Sutta (MN 18)(as a source text being analyzed)
- A specific Buddhist sermon (called a sutta) found in the Middle Length Discourses collection, where the Buddha explains how our minds create the experience of the world step-by-step.
- Presupposes(as describing what Plantinga's argument takes for granted)
- Assumes something to be true without proving it—like how an argument might presuppose that logic works, without first arguing that logic is valid.
- Pāli Nikāya(referring to a collection of Buddhist scriptures)
- Ancient Buddhist texts written in Pāli (an old Indian language) that record what Buddha and early Buddhist teachers said. They're like the earliest preserved lectures and teachings in Buddhism.
- contact(Buddhist dependent origination (pratītyasamutpāda) framework)
- The coming together of consciousness with sensory objects via the sense faculties, which gives rise to feelings and perceptions; unavoidable while consciousness is conditioned by the mental constituents.
- feeling(Herder uses 'feeling' to mean the tactile sense specifically, distinguishing it from emotional feeling.)
- The sense of touch, which puts us into direct contact with physical reality.