Mark Siderits, "How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Is There Any Affinities to the Concept of a Useful Conceptual Fiction?
All buddhists are anti realists of one in one respect or another. The metaphysical urgings the aa will be inculcated through doing the practice of philosophy, important to a buddhist path, but has to be put aside at a certain point. Myjomacas go furthest of all, though, they claim that the very idea of an ultimate ontology makes no sense. An ultimate Ontology would have to consist of things that bear their natures intrinsically,. But majomicas argue it does not make any sense. That is, in fact, part of their project of getting us to a metaphysic quieting.
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