- Abhidharma(as the type of Buddhist literature being studied)
- A collection of Buddhist texts that carefully analyze and organize Buddhist teachings into detailed categories and logical frameworks.
- Conflates(in argumentation and logic)
- Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
- Necessary precondition(as used in logic and philosophy)
- Something that must be true or must happen first before something else can happen—like needing flour as a necessary precondition for baking bread.
- Phenomenal decomposition(what the transcendental subject supposedly makes possible)
- Breaking down your lived experiences and perceptions into smaller, simpler parts to analyze them.
- Reducible to aggregates(describing whether the self can be decomposed into components)
- Able to be broken down into smaller, simpler parts or bundles (like how a car reduces to engine, wheels, frame, etc.).
- Transcendental subject(what the statement says does NOT create validity)
- A thinking person or mind viewed as the source or creator of knowledge and experience, rather than as simply a receiver of information.
- empirical self(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
- The version of yourself that you directly experience through your senses and thoughts—your everyday conscious identity, as opposed to any deeper spiritual essence.