#erik hoogcarspel

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Erik Hoogcarspel talking about Nagarjuna in a podcast

Host: "How does Nagarjuna's use of the tetralemma relate to the idea of dependent arising? Is it because you can look at things from all these different perspectives?"

Hoogcarspel: "Well, logic is based on ontology. In Aristotle's predicate logic, a predicate implies a subject, or a substance, to which the predicate applies." Host: "But there is no such substance?"

Hoogcarspel: "No, so the predicates... Are up in the air, as it were, they are no longer certain."

Host: "You can't have logic; you can't talk about it." Hoogcarspel: "No, because there is nothing that you are talking about."