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georgia
georgia
reading about prajñaparamita/madhyamika buddhism makes me lowkey mad, no wonder people call buddhists nihilists. I'll just call those buddhists shunyavadis (after advaitins being called mayavadis). lmao I looked up the term and vaishnavites have already used it to refer to all followers of the buddha. this is the same anger which led vaishnavites to call the buddha an avatar with the purpose of leading asuras astray through non-observance of vedic dharma. i get it now!
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icedquinn@blob.cat
@georgia i feel like i've just read a sentence where words were occasionally swapped out for markov chains
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apollo@holos.social
@georgia@netzsphaere.xyz It's dumb but it's not really nihilistic. It's making the mistake all these sophisticated premodern inductive philosophies do where it mistakes language for the referent the language points too.
You can't describe any one thing without making references to other things, so that thing isn't really the thing in itself, therefore there is no thing. There's an intuitive logic but it's obviously wrong.
But like, it's no more wrong than the opposite view, literalist Platonism, where things literally have forms located somewhere that gives every chair continuity with other chairs.
God forbid we just allow linquistic conventions to be linquistic conventions.
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