
HPI 44 - It All Depends - Nagarjuna on Emptiness
History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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The Relationship Between Redness and Nagarjuna
The annihilationist claims that objects do not exist at all. Nagarjuna's middle position is that objects do exist, but only by subsisting in themselves. The word redness does play a role in our language, but there is no distinct thing out in the world to which it refers. To unmask the emptiness of words and concepts he uses a style of argument called prasanga.
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