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In the discourses of the Buddha the philosophical and psychological aspects of the ‘person’ concept are often intermingled and even interwoven, and it is only by a process of dissection and abstraction that the material can be separated for purposes of study.
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Arthur Danto, ‘Persons’, Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, vol. 6, 1967, p. 111.
See Terrence Penulhum, ‘Personal Identity’, Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, vol. 6, 1967, p. 100.
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de Silva, P. (2005). Personality. In: An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230509450_4
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