The Development of the Indian Tradition

The key debate is here that on the one hand the defenders of this approach say look I mean if you regard Madhyamaka as negating common sense of the way things appear to us then you end up with a kind of nihilistic theory which says nothing exists right. The opponents of that view claim that well it would be very surprising if any philosophical theory would make the world disappear right so it's not that if you believe in these arguments having nothing appears to you anymore rather what's happening is that you have you you are forced into this position of this discrepancy between the theory saying it's all an illusion it's not there and the appearance of it as real. This tradition claims that this