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    The compatibility thesis selectively emphasizes Buddhist epistemology while bracketing doctrines that are empirically substantive and falsifiable.

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    • 1.Compatibility advocates focus on Buddhist phenomenology of mind while ignoring rebirth claims, which lack empirical support.
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    • 2.Selective emphasis is methodologically rational when integrating frameworks—we accept useful parts while rejecting unfalsifiable ones.
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    • 3.Buddhist metaphysical claims (karma, consciousness continuity) are empirically substantive yet treated as culturally decorative by compatibilists.
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    • 1.Buddhist epistemology (direct perception, inference, testimony) is itself inseparable from substantive metaphysical commitments about consciousness.
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    • 2.Bracketing falsifiable doctrines isn't selective bias but standard practice—physics brackets alchemy, not through bad faith but justified exclusion.
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    • 3.The charge of selective emphasis assumes all Buddhist doctrines have equal evidential status, which Buddhist scholars themselves reject.
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