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‘When asked for any ultimate ground, such as direct contact with reality or transcendental justification, the Madhyamika shakes her head, suggesting that the very idea of such a ground is incoherent; convention, human practice, is all we have, and all we need.’

‘The Heideggerian approach to consciousness and reflexivity is anticipated by Dōgen, and offers an interesting alternative.’

It may well be that the phenomenological project as prosecuted by Dignaga, Husserl, and as resurrected by Coseru and Zahavi, may be misguided for a simple reason: There may be nothing that it is like to be me because there is no me; there may be nothing that it is like for me to see red, because I don’t.’

‘...”Could there be nothing more to being me than being me? To tasting a tomato than tasting a tomato? To seeing red than seeing red?”...
It may well be that the phenomenological project as prosecuted by Dagnāga Husserl, and as resurrected by Coseru and Zahavi, may be misguided for a simple reason: There may be nothing that it is like to be me because there is no me;...

‘We should begin to suspect that “what it is like” is like the self, on Candrakirti’s analysis- a useful facon de parler, but nothing more, a term that simply refers to nothing at all.’

‘To take what introspection delivers as reality is, from a Buddhist perspective, simply to embrace delusion.’