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Role of Universals, Thought Experiment
Second fold (a) The first fold of the two truths is the conventional truth. (b) Neither existence nor sunyata is the transcendental truth. Third fold (a) the third fold of these two truths is the conventional truth (b) Neither existence no non-sunyata is the transcendental
truth. Fourth fold (a) The third fold of these two truths is the conventional truth. (b) Neither not oneexistence nor not non-sunyata is the
transcendental truth.
Hence we see these negative explanations are necessary to lead as to the ideal state.
The two truths of the four folds indicate the middle path i.e. to have refuted every kind of extreme view. It is theory of "Eight Noes”.
No annihilation, No production No destruction, No persistence No unity,
No plurality No coming in, No going out According to the Madhyamika School every kind of extreme view can be refuted by these eight noes.
However since the reader is likely to misunderstand the above it is important to clarify the following points.
(1) The dialectic is not itself a view-point or a synthesis of various view-points. It is only a criticism.
(2) Rejection of all thought categories and views is the rejection of the competence of Reason, to apprehend reality. The real is transcendent to thought, it is thought, it is nondual (sunya), free from all duality of 'is' and is-not'.
(3) All knowledge whether perceptual or inferred is relative and there is none that is absolute true. Nagarjuna
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