[Buddha-l] Moment of individuation

[jkirk]

> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:18 -0400, Stanley J. Ziobro II wrote:
>
> > A soul is simply the actualizing principle of individuation that
> > determines any particular creature to be what it is.
>
> So it is what the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika folks called a viśeṣa? As I recall,
> the idea of a viśeṣa is precisely the same: an individuating principle
> that makes each individual distinct from every other individual, even if
> it belongs to the same class and has similar features to the others from
> which it is distinguished.
>
> --
> Richard Hayes
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Now why have I thought all this was genetic inheritance? silly me.
Joanna