[MD] Idealistic static value patterns

[MarshaV]

Tuukka,

Although, Priest wimps out by using the term 'relational', you might find this interesting.  It's a mathematical model:


"1. Introduction

The view that everything is empty (sunya) is a central metaphysical plank of Mahayana Buddhism.  It has often been the focus of objections.  Perhaps the most important of these is to the effect that it entails a nihilism:  nothing exists.  The objection, in turn, is denied by Mahayana theorists, such as Nagarjuna.  One of the things that makes the debate hard is that the precise import of the view that everything is empty is unclear.  The point of this paper is to revisit and resolve the debate.  I will do this by giving a precise mathematical characterisation of emptiness, showing that emptiness, whatever it is, has a precise structure, and is not therefore, to be identified with the void.  Thus the debate will be resolved in favour of the Mahayana. "

      (Priest, Graham, 'The Structure of Emptiness')   

 
 
 
http://www.hmn.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pasta/priest/priest_040826.pdf


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Marsha 


 
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