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Buddhist philosophy

the four alternatives (is, is not, both, neither) used to analyse positions, whose uses in Mahāyāna Ruegg examines.

In Buddhist philosophy, catuskoti refers to the four alternatives (is, is not, both, neither) used to analyse positions, whose uses in Mahāyāna Ruegg examines. This meaning comes from Ruegg (1977) in Journal of Indian Philosophy.[1]

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Ruegg, D. S. (1977). The uses of the four positions of the catuskoti and the problem of the description of reality in Mahāyāna Buddhism. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 5(1-2), 1-71. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02431703

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