Are there any accounts of "emptiness", preferably purely phenomenological/methodological, that don't presume a contentious metaphysics?
That’s a particular interpretation of emptiness, from Prasangika Madhyamaka. FWIW I think that interpretation has some unfortunate consequences, but I agree that it is metaphysically relatively unproblematic.
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What do you think are the consequences? To me it seems that is the most exact technical definition, the other schools seem to present the interpretation that bc it’s non conceptual/direct experience it can’t have a technical def. although it’s endlessly talked about/described.
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Hmm. It seems you think there is a single, specific thing that this word points at? I don’t there is. Explaining what’s wrong with Prasangika would take quite a few tweets (or a long book; Mipham’s _Beacon of Certainty_ is one standard source).
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