Among other things, aspects of Indian culture have been conflated with the nation's dominant religion, so that the caste system and other antiquated customs have come to be seen, erroneously, as central features of Hindu doctrine.
Seeing the shape of a human organ in any plant was a key feature of the doctrine of signatures, a theory popularized by medieval herbalists that held a plant's use could be divined by careful study of the shape of its leaves or roots, or of the conditions in which it grew (spleenwort leaves were used to purify the blood).
Although Nozick's discussion of his Lockean proviso is somewhat murky, we can identify three important features of that proviso doctrine.
Unlike Noyes, Raël is no communitarian visionary, but sensuality and sexuality have long been a feature of Raëlian doctrines.
Leibniz suggests a strategy of selective omission, not to permanently hide the controversial features of his philosophy, but as part of a longer-term strategy of preparing his readers to understand his most esoteric doctrines.
He also attempts to defend this position by showing it to be reconcilable with central features of Kant's theoretical philosophy (notably, Kant's doctrine of things in themselves).
Why the doctrine (or lack-of-doctrine) obsession?
If the Achaemenids ever heard of him, they did not see fit to mention his name in their inscriptions nor did they allude to the beings who surrounded the great god and were later to be called the amesha spentas, or "bounteous immortals"—an essential feature of Zarathustra's doctrine.
A final feature of Malebranche's doctrine of the vision in God is connected to the notion in his writings of the "efficacious idea" (idée efficace).
The central feature of the modern doctrine of evolution is that the main driving force of the process is natural selection, winnowing some form of genetic variation, the most popular version being random genetic mutation.
It has also been noted that features of the law such as the doctrine of precedent, arguments from analogy, and the requirement that like cases be treated alike seem particularly apt to be illuminated via some kind of coherence explanation.
