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Śūnyatā (emptiness)

Central Buddhist concept: the lack of intrinsic reality in all things; evoked throughout the Xeno Sutra.

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  • Founder of Madhyamaka philosophy; central to the paper's interpretation of the Xeno Sutra.

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  • Buddhist concept that even emptiness is empty; formally related to the structural realism claim that even relations are defined by further relations
  • Dependent origination
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    Buddhist doctrine of conditionality; its careful attention makes tanha-like building blocks likely to have simple neural implementations.
  • Doctrine that distinguishes conventional linguistic reality from ultimate ineffable reality; key to interpreting the Xeno Sutra.
  • The fundamental human failure to see emptiness due to cognitive makeup; attempted to be dispelled by the Xeno Sutra.

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