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when someone is wrong about your pet topicpic.twitter.com/88a1JVF8rL
In Tibet, formal logic is performed as ritual combat. When you make a particularly devastating deduction, you clap in your opponent’s face. Dude here is executing the windup just before drawing the conclusion.pic.twitter.com/crKZnVLRC7
In the transcript, >~ is a clap because
didn’t exist yetpic.twitter.com/p1FX6LNC3H
is that supposed to be comprehensible?
Only if you’ve spent years studying that philosophical system. Which I sort of have, and I think it’s bogus, but no more so than the Western analytic philosophy it closely resembles. I love that it’s a cross between analytic philosophy and capoeira!pic.twitter.com/kOgpKwIQgO
So what system is that? Got me curious.
It’s the one the Geluk School uses. Can’t remember its official name. (I belong to a different school of Tibetan Buddhism which has different norms of philosophical debate and disses the Geluk version.)
Oh, sorry, I didn’t look at the context. There’s the philosophical system and there’s the system of formal logic it uses. It’s the name of the logic that I can’t remember. The philosophical system is called Prasangika Madhyamaka.
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