Dao Do Jing and Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Making Sense of Ineffability
Prof. Graham Priest, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Graduate Center, The City University of New York |
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4:30 – 6:30 pm |
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Room 220, Fung King Hey Building |
Abstract:
Both Daoism and Mahāyāna Buddhism hold that there is something that is ineffable, and explain why this is so, thereby describing it. There is an obvious contradiction here. It might be thought that this makes the views incoherent. It does not, as can be shown by applying some simple techniques of paraconsistent logic.