Transcendental Logic and Spiritual Development – Following Dignāga's and Kant's Critical Epistemology 2016/12/12 - 7 years ago

Transcendental Logic and Spiritual Development – Following Dignāga's and Kant's Critical Epistemology 2016/12/121. Inference vs. dialectics/ prasaṅgaA proposition whose subject is not presently cognized can be established via two kinds of employment of logic. When the subject is cognizable, we infer; when the subject is not cognizable, we use dialectics, viz., reductio ad absurdum (in Buddhism,

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Nāgārjuna's reconciliation of the Buddhist empty-existence conflict by means of catuṣkoṭi and prasajya-pratiṣeda - 9 years ago

Nāgārjuna (150 – 250 C.E.) is believed to originate from South India. At his time, Buddhism in India faces a big split between the school of emptiness in the south (Mahāsaṃghika 大眾部, a branch which is believed by modern scholars to be the initial development of Mahāyāna Buddhism, Williams, 2004: 181-2) and the school of existence in the north (Sarvāstivāda 說一切有部, in which the founder of Yogācāra,

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