I’m reasonably sure not. Mainstream Buddhism isn’t a mystery religion at all. It has a surprisingly formal, well-developed epistemological theory, which explicitly takes scripture as unquestionable Truth.
Half a century ago, the field switched to trying to understand more clearly why no such theory is possible, and (more importantly) why science often works anyway.
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There are many different reasons (which the Eggplant book is supposed to explain). A simple one: there are always unboundedly many things that *might* happen, that you can’t know about.
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Relatedly: you can never interpret data without making unboundedly many implicit ontological assumptions.
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