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Truth and Emptiness with Jake Orthwein

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Is the Buddhist Claim a Pragmatist Idea?

The default assumption and certainly the dominant Western philosophical assumption is about the correspondence theory of truth, right? The job of philosophy or inquiry is to get our concepts to match that reality. And actually, I would say that the Buddhist claim falls under the general category of pragmatist understandings of truth. But in this understanding, yeah, it is kind of more interactive,. Which is that truth is a way of organizing action - which always reveals more about nature than your conceptual framework can handle.

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