དོན་སྤྱི་

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དོན་སྤྱི། (Wyl. don spyi) n. Pron.: dönchi

  • idea AW
  • object universal [Logic] [Epistemology] GGD
  • generic image [Logic] [Epistemology] Hopkins
  • objective generality. MK (2000) says: ""The term 'objective generality' (དོན་སྤྱི་) is defined in a great many ways by later Tibetan thinkers. Recent interpreters of tibetan scholastic documents have sometimes used here the term 'generic image', but I think we should be on our guard lest we assimilate the concept to one of mental imagery. (p.91) [Logic] [Epistemology] MK
  • mental image [Logic] [Epistemology] PKT
  • objective generality RT CPT