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2 Professor von Glasenapp, an eminent German Indologist, specifies the following Buddhist concepts as unchallenged by modern scientific ideas: the principle of universal order (dhamma); a positivistic denial of eternal substances; the contention that soul or self is an artificial abstraction; the recognition of a plurality of worlds; and the affirmation of the essential similarity between man and animal.
These presentations emphasized a classic approach to career assessment, were framed in a positivistic or postpositivistic set of epistemological and ontological assumptions, and were generally more quantitative in nature.
Bank Street researchers were working with researchers with a more positivistic and mechanical approach to measurement than was Bank Street.
 
 
 
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