Pak.so gantaa gacchatiiti yasya tasya prasajyate
gamanena vinaa gantaa gantur-gamanamicchata.h.
Gamane dve prasajyate gantaa yadyuta gacchati
ganteti cocyate yena gantaa san yacca gacchati
The thesis is that the goer goes:from this it follows
That there is a goer without a going, having obtained
a going from a goer.
Two goings follow if the goer goes:
That by which "the goer" is designated, and the real
goer who goes.
Here again we see that the assumption of
language-reality isomorphism leads to paradoxical
consequences; in this case the analysis of the notion
of a goer leads to two goings, one on the side of
language, the other on the side of reality.
MMK II:12-13 allows two divergent
interpretations: one takes it to be an argument of
the "mathematical" type, the other to be an argument
of the "conceptual" type. The verses are as follows:
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Gate naarabhyate gantu^m ganta^m naarabhyate 'gate