[MD] Reet and the Weakest Link

MarshaV marshalz at charter.net
Mon Aug 4 12:10:28 PDT 2008


Hi Ron,  
 
Looks a little confusing ... visually?   Maybe it was the editor.     

Marsha



> 
> Ron:
> the tetra lemma supports this as well,
> 
> Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause
> does anything whatever anywhere arise (Garfield's translation) 
> Here X refers to any arbitrary thing in reality, and thus the following
> four logical propositions are rejected by Nagarjuna:
> 
> Things arise out of themselves
> 
> X 
> Things arise out of something else
> 
> not X 
> They arise out of both
> 
> Both X and not X 
> Without cause
> 
> Neither X nor not X
> 
> Nagarjuna used the tetralemma to illustrate the seemingly contradictory
> nature of reality.
> 
> 
> 
 



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