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he is not arguing against the possibility of real
motion (indeed he argues against rest as well), but
only against the possibility of our giving any
coherent, universally valid account of motion. To
this end he employs two different types of argument:
(a) "conceptual" arguments, which exhibit the absurd
consequences of any attempt at mapping meaning
structures onto an extralinguistic reality; these
exploit such things as the substance-attribute
relationship, designation and predication; (b)
"mathematical" arguments, which exploit the anomalies
which arise when we presuppose continuous or
discontinuous time and/or space. Arguments of type
(a) have already received considerable attention from
scholars of Maadhyamika; thus the bulk of the
remainder of this article will focus on arguments
which we feel belong in category (b).
It is MMK II:1 to which Kajiyama refers when he
calls Naagaarjuna's arguments "Zeno-like." And indeed
there is a clear resemblance between this and Zeno's
Arrow Paradox.
Gata^m na gamyate taavadagata^m naiva gamyate
gataagatavinirmukta^m gamyamaana^m na gamyate
The gone-to is not gone to, nor is the not-yet-gone-to;
In the absence of the gone-to and the not-yet -
gone-to, present-being-gone-to is not gone to.
The model which is under scrutiny here is that which
takes both time and space to be continuous, that is,
infinitely divisible. The argument focuses explicitly
on infinitely divisible space, but infinitely
divisible time must be taken as a suppressed premise