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Arya Nagarjuna, who revived the Prajnaparamita, refuted the Jains philosophical position that a thing is produced from both itself and other. He did this by refuting the Samkhya's and the Autonomists who posited that a thing is produced from self and other, respectively. That a thing could be produced from both after each, self and other, had been refuted made absolutely no sense! Further, the Nihilists were refuted who were convinced that there was no previous life and no future life and said that a thing had no cause. These were all Indian Hindu philosophical schools that were defeated by the great master Arya Nagarjuna, the founder of the Madhyamika-Prasangika, the highest philosophical tenet system that identified the lack of true establishment of not only the self, but also the lack of true establishment of phenomenon saying that not only is the object perceived by a mental consciousness empty of inherent existence, but the consciousness that apprehends the object and imputes a name and label on that object is empty as well. In the context of conventional and ultimate truth - things exist, but not inherently - they are a collection that is named and can perform a function. Table, for instance. So, in my opinion, philosophically, they are mutually exclusive. One can not ride two horses at once, and sooner or later, you have to get down to brass tacks, the metaphysics underlying any philosophy. How do you define a thing?
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