Causation and Ontic Indeterminacy

Ho, Chien-hsing

doi:10.11612/resphil.1992

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2021

DOI: 10.11612/resphil.1992

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Causation and Ontic Indeterminacy

Chien-hsing Ho¹

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“…1564, p. 32, c16-p. 33, a3). 16 For the meaning of "ontological indeterminacy", see Ho (2021), Kantor (2019c), andZiporyn (2016). 17…”

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Doxographical Appropriation of Nāgārjuna’s Catuṣkoṭi in Chinese Sanlun and Tiantai Thought

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This article reconstructs the Chinese “practice qua exegesis” which evolved out of the doxographical appropriation of the Indian Buddhist catuṣkoṭi (four edges), a heuristic device for conceptual analysis and a method of assorting linguistic forms to which adherents of Madhyamaka ascribed ambiguous potential. It could conceptually clarify Buddhist doctrine, but also produce deceptive speech. According to the Chinese interpreters, conceptual and linguistic forms continue to be deceptive until the mind realizes that all it holds on or distinguishes itself from is its own fabrication. Liberation from such self-induced deceptions requires awareness of the paradox that the desire to leave them behind is itself a way of clinging to them. Chinese Sanlun and Tiantai masters tried to uncover this paradox and to disclose to practitioners how the application of the catuṣkoṭi, on the basis of such awareness, enables proper conceptual analysis in exegesis. From this approach followed the Chinese habit of construing doxographies in which hermeneutical and soteriological intent coincide. Understanding the inner unity of doctrinal manifoldness in the translated sūtra and śāstra literature from India via exegesis also made it possible to apprehend the ineffable sense of liberation.

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“…1564, p. 32, c16-p. 33, a3). 16 For the meaning of "ontological indeterminacy", see Ho (2021), Kantor (2019c), andZiporyn (2016). 17…”

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Causation and Ontic Indeterminacy

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Doxographical Appropriation of Nāgārjuna’s Catuṣkoṭi in Chinese Sanlun and Tiantai Thought

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