Christopher Beckwith drew parallels between ideas in this school of thought and the “three marks of existence” found in Buddhism. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Greek school of thought whose founder, Pyrrho of Elis, spent time in India as part of Alexander’s army. This philosophical stance generally holds that our beliefs and senses are unreliable.
ANSWER: Pyrrhonian skepticism [accept word forms such as skeptic]
[10h] This other early Buddhist school of philosophy holds that all dharmas only exist momentarily before being destroyed. This school explains causation by positing a “storehouse consciousness” holding karmic “seeds.”
ANSWER: Yogacara School [or Yogachara school; or Mind-Only School; or Consciousness-Only school]
[10m] Diogenes Laertius claims that Indian philosophers inspired this Pyrrhonian technique of suspending judgment about uncertain facts. Edmund Husserl employed this technique to “bracket” off questions about the external world.
ANSWER: epoché (eh-“POE”-kay)
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