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Q149
(IAS/2001)
History & Culture › Culture, Literature, Religion & Philosophy › Buddhist doctrine and sects
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Anand must be a vegetarian because he is a Buddhist. The argument assumes that
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The argument “Anand must be a vegetarian because he is a Buddhist” presumes a universal generalization: that every Buddhist is a vegetarian. To infer a necessity (“must be”) from class membership requires the premise “all members of class X have property Y,” i.e., all Buddhists are vegetarians. Empirical and doctrinal sources show this universal claim is false or at least contested: Buddhist practice on diet varies (many are vegetarian but Buddhists are not uniformly so) [1], and early texts do not mandate vegetarianism for all followers [2]. Thus the assumed premise is the universal affirmative “all Buddhists are vegetarians” (option 2).
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- [1] https://indianexpress.com/article/india/many-in-buddhist-world-are-vegetarians-the-dalai-lama-meat-eating-4602292/
- [2] https://archive.org/download/buddhism-engl/BUDDHISM%20ENGL.rar/BUDDHISM%20ENGL%2FBHANTE%2FETC%2FBHANTE%20DHAMMIKA%2FDhammika_To%20Eat%20or%20Not%20to%20Eat%20Meat.pdf
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