1. The Conclusion and the author’s stance regarding EmptinessChakrabarti’s thesis is clear: absence is real, and qualms about its reality are due to the failure to distinguish between not-being (absence) and non-being. However, his conclusion is obscure. Towards the end of the chapter, he discusses emptiness, then Bhattacharya’s “feeling of absent feeling”, and then returns to emptiness. It
1. Representational accuracy of the IntroductionSome general claims have been challenged. Firstly, is there a clear distinction between western philosophy and Asian philosophy, such that western philosophy began with investigation of being and existence, while Asian philosophy was concerned with nothingness and emptiness from start? To this, we agreed that there is no clear distinction but also th
Comments on Koji’s Paper: In Search of the Semantics of EmptinessY Deguchi 10 Dec 2014 Virtues: None. Vices No definite conclusion: ‘The realization of emptiness thus depends on the attachment of a semantics that can accommodate it” (63) This is right. But it is a matter of off course. Then what is the semantics? No definite answer though he suggests a Carnapean pragmatic account of truth (62)