The king replies cautiously that certainly ‘chariot’ refers only to the relationship between the ensemble of wheels, axle and chassis, to their working together and in relation to us – and that there does not exist an entity ‘chariot’ beyond these relations and events. Nāgasena triumphs: in the same way as ‘chariot’, the name ‘Nāgasena’ designates nothing more than a collection of relations and events. We are processes, events, composite and limited in space and time. But, if we are not an individual entity, what is it that founds our identity and its unity? What makes it so – that I am Carlo
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What is a thing.
