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Zeno and Naagaarjuna on motion(20)

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     necessitates   the  notion  of  a  separate  apellate
     'going'   whereby   the  real  going   or   the  real
     present-being-gone-to is known.  This, in turn, gives
     rise  to the  problem  of the logical  interrelations
     among   these   various   terms.   The   result   is
     Naagaarjuna's  demonstration  that the supposition of
     motion  in an extended  present  leads to paradoxical
     consequences.  The point  we wish to make about  this
     demonstration is that its efficacy extends far beyond
     the limited  scope of Pudgalavaadin  presuppositions.
     Even   more  than   his  and  Zeno's   "mathematical"
     arguments,   Naagaarjuna's   "conceptual"   arguments
     against  motion are of greater than merely historical
     interest.
      MMK  II:7-11  seeks  to further  demonstrate  the
     impossibility  of motion by focusing on the notion of
     a goer.  In verse  7 Naagaarjuna  states  the obvious
     point  that  there  is  a goer  if there  is a going.
     Verses  8 and 9 then  convert  this, by means  of the
     conclusion  of II: 1-6 that  no going  occurs  in the
     three times, to the consequence  that there can be no
     goer.  MMK II:10-II then utilize essentially the same
     argument  as verses  4-5, but  here  apply  it to the
     notion of a goer:

     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:


              p.295

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