[Buddha-l] Pure Conversation vs koan

[Stephen Hodge]

Richard Hayes wrote:

> \begin{quote}
> When the lerned are conversing, sire, a turning over (of a subject) is 
> made
> and an unravelling is made and a refutation is made and a redress is made 
> and
> a specific point is made against it, and the learned are not angy in
> consequence---it is thus, sire that the lerned converse.
> \end{quote}

Or as Fritz Staal put it, "What kare us logickers for grammer ?"

Stephen Hodge