[Buddha-l] Realism, anti-realism and Buddhism

[jkirk]

OK--I have my answer.
Joanna
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> Aren't the avyak.rtaas an indication of Gautama's antirealism?

I don't think so. Those are questions that Gautama saw no point
in answering, because knowing the answers would have no bearing
on the causes of discontent and their eradication. If he had said
that the questions simply have no answers, or that there is no
truth to the matter, then he might be an anti-realist.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico

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