Will Crichton

@czaplic Great talk @ Deconstruct. Besides the books you mentioned, any recommended further reading in language philosophy and semiotics?

I came away very disillusioned with any sort of "meta-physics" and started looking for different lineages of thinkers who looked into the same general topic.

That's how I found Nagarjuna (who I think got it right) but I found the logic of that argument is extraordinarily difficult to follow because he doesn't believe in language as a means of communicating truth

But https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarjuna#Sunyata … talks about the four cases he stresses in his argument, and I _think_ I first read about this argument in https://www.amazon.com/Bodhicaryavatara-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199540438 … (which covers lots of other stuff, and I recall not thinking about the translation, so it's probably not terrible)

Eventually I found "Zen Action/Zen Person" http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-279-9780824810238.aspx … which I found very helpful after I struggled with Buddhist texts on my own, but it's probably fine to read if you are already motivated!

It is a western philosopher trying to break down the argument in a way that is aware of fundamental translation issues. E.g. "being" and "emptiness" have very particular connotations that can be super misleading, and it's really easy to pass over that without realizing