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HPI 47 - Jan Westerhoff on Nagarjuna

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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The Status of Conventional Reality in Madhyamaka

The status of conventional reality within Madhyamaka becomes a huge issue in the commentary tradition after Nagarajuna. Two main possibilities explore their Bavaria stinkers is that on one hand we have the idea that conventional reality is false because it has all these superimpositions of svavah and we can interact with that in our everyday life but it's obviously can't tell us anything about what the world is really like. On the other hand you get the approach that says that well even though there is no ultimately true theory that doesn't mean that every conventionally true theory is as bad as every other right so there is a there's a stratification of conventional theories in terms of

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