Are there any accounts of "emptiness", preferably purely phenomenological/methodological, that don't presume a contentious metaphysics?
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Anyway, “the absence of thought with the presence of awareness” is not what I mean by “nebulosity” (although there may be some experiential connection). It’s also not a common meaning historically; it comes from Dzogchen Semdé, which is a fairly obscure branch of Buddhism.
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I cited “the absence of thought with the presence of awareness” just because you asked for examples of metaphysically-uncontentious interpretations of “emptiness,” and it’s the least metaphysically problematic one that came to mind. I don’t think it’s The True Meaning.
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David, whilst you’re thinking around this topic: You cite Beacon of Certainty as a key influence for the Meaningness project, and explained a bit about why you use ‘nebulosity’ instead of ‘emptiness’. Does your use of ‘fluid mode’ have a similar relationship to ‘coalescence’?
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Yes-ish, although I didn’t have the specific word “coalescence” in mind as far as I recall. Interesting similarity, though! I don’t even remember which word Pettit translated as “coalescence”, and don’t have the text where I am now, so I can’t check.
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