... age-old philosophical attitudes which arise from false factual premises, with vast theoretical superstructures framed to fit those premises. (Nyanaponika Thera)

... age-old philosophical attitudes which arise from false factual premises, with vast theoretical superstructures framed to fit those premises.

Nyanaponika Thera

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