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Rick O'Shez
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  • The Buddha doesn’t deny a real world or a thinking self, but he’s eliminated the need for any difference between them that holds man (the thinking self) apart from the world. He’s realized away the “inside/outside” fallacy.
    What a Buddha has is more intimate than that. Your inside is your outside. The divide between “in here” and “out there” is realized away. There is no “sense-data” that stands apart from a “really real” world that it can never be a part of. The phenomenalist allows for solipsism.
    Phenomenalism takes a contrasting position that we have all this “sense-data” going on in the brain, and what is “out there” has the nature of being a belief, nothing more. Both views require the infallibility of that “really real” world that is forever out of reach.
    Re the question in Buddhism DIR, realism is the understanding that the world objects that we experience are not the world objects but “sense-data” of the world objects--an interpretation in the brain, through brain function processes, of what is going on “outside” of the brain in a “really real” world “out there.”
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