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David Chapman
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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 1 Aug 2019
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      Are there any accounts of "emptiness", preferably purely phenomenological/methodological, that don't presume a contentious metaphysics?

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Aug 2019
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      “The absence of thought with the presence of awareness” seems relatively unproblematic. (Although the possibility if rhat is denied by some major philosophers.) Nb I don’t particularly advocate that definition, just noting it as reasonably inoffensive metaphysically

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Aug 2019
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      “of that”, typo

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    4. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 2 Aug 2019
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      What do you not like about it, that it is in some sense misleading (like given differing interpretations of what "thought" is), or that it is outright false/there is more to it?

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 2 Aug 2019
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      Well “emptiness” is just a word. There’s 2000 years of arguments about “what it really means” (in the absence of a philosophy of language that would dissolve that question). Different thinkers have given it quite different interpretations.

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      Some of the meanings-in-use of “emptiness” are pretty clearly wrong; many are too vague or self-contradictory to do much work for us. Others might be importantly functional, but they’re hard to separate from their history of use and apply in a different context.

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      I avoid “emptiness,” and use the word “nebulosity” as a coined alternative, in order to point at a more-specific thing, which is one I think is important, and which is at least in the penumbra of some senses of “emptiness” in the literature.

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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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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 2 Aug 2019
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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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        1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 2 Aug 2019
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          The absence of thought with the presence of awareness is something you can experience, briefly at least, with only minimal meditation experience, so it would seem also to fit your “purely phenomenological/methodological” criterion.

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