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Chapter 3 Self-Quiz
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Within the Vedas, philosophical reflections on Vedic myths, hymns, and rituals are found primarily in the
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Brahmanas.
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Aranyakas.
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Upanisads.
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Because the self is that which perceives the whole world, the Brhadaranyaka Upanisad claims that the self
cannot itself be perceived.
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is reducible to a set of biological processes.
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is affected by the objects that it perceives.
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is eternal and unchanging.
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The doctrine of karma fundamentally holds that when people perform good actions,
they will tend to live good lives.
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they will experience good consequences as a causal result of those actions.
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God will look upon them favorably.
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they are guaranteed to become Brahmins in their next lives.
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The Buddha thought that we have attachments to things because, fundamentally,
society conditions us to desire more and more things.
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attachments make life worth living.
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we are inherently selfish.
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we have a false understanding of reality.
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To refute the idea that there is a self who is an autonomous author of one's actions, the Buddha cites the doctrine of
dependent origination.
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karma and rebirth.
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emptiness.
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the Eightfold Path.
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When an enlightened person achieves the first stage of nirvana, that person
no longer experiences strong desires or aversions.
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ceases to exist altogether.
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will come back in future lives to remove the suffering of others.
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stops experiencing any pain or pleasure at all.
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Having failed to identify Nagasena with any of his body parts or any of the five skandhas, King Milinda initially thinks that
Nagasena is identical with his unchanging atman.
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Nagasena must not exist at all, and is lying about his own existence.
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Nagasena is being indecisive about his own true identity.
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Nagasena is being humorous.
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The role of particularity (visesa) in the Vaisesika system is to
distinguish general properties from individual substances.
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represent the object of perception.
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individuate one attribute from another.
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mark a substance as being numerically distinct from every other substance.
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Which of the following is not a genuine source of knowledge (pramana), according to Nyaya?
perception
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memory
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testimony
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inference
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