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    Supports→Metaphysical belief in a 'true world' is psychologically motivated by suffering and wish-fulfillment, not by rational inquiry

    The structural isomorphism between wish-content (escape from suffering, permanence, perfection) and metaphysical posits (Forms, Nirvana, God) is too systematic to be coincidental.

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    • 1.Across disparate cultures, metaphysical systems independently converge on identical wish-structures, suggesting common psychological origins rather than discovery.
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    • 2.Metaphysical posits consistently solve existential problems (suffering, impermanence, finitude) that motivate their initial adoption and defense.
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    • 3.When empirical evidence challenges these posits, adherents reinterpret rather than abandon them, showing wish-preservation overrides evidential reasoning.
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    • 1.Systematic structural similarity could reflect rational response to universal human conditions rather than wishful projection of identical fears.
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    • 2.Many counterintuitive metaphysical claims (karma, radical evil, incomprehensibility) actively resist wish-fulfillment, undermining the projection hypothesis.
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    • 3.Identifying wish-content doesn't explain why these specific wishes generated elaborate philosophical systems rather than remaining private psychological comfort.
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