Nagarjuna's Refutation of Logic (Nyaya)

Vaidalyaprakarana

Fernando Tola and Carmen Dragonetti

Motilal Banarsidass

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2004

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Nagarjuna’s refutation of logic, primarily found in his Vaidalyaprakarana and Mulamadhyamakakarika, uses skepticism to deconstruct the Naiyayika (Indian logic) school's reliance on "means of knowledge" (pramanas). He argues that logic and language cannot capture the ultimate nature of reality—which is emptiness (sunyata) or dependent origination—because all concepts are inherently empty of intrinsic existence.