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Does anyone read the part 2 of Nagarjuna's karika as an argument about infinite divisibility?

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Is Nagarjuna is arguing that time cannot really be both infinitely divisible and extended, so is a conceptual construction? I'm asking because verse 2.23 suggested that to me, taken completely out of context, anyway. > 23. **[A going] which is other than the going by which a goer is made *evident* does not [enable a goer to] go**. Because it is impossible for > going to be twofold within a single goer. Emphasis, obviously, mine. I really like the idea that Nagarjuna was saying that time must be infinitely divisible, but time as we experience it (***evidently***) is not infinitely divisible, because if it was it would take forever to compose it. ---------- As I think it was pointed out in an answer, it is often I think said that Nagarjuna means time cannot inherently exist because it is infinitely divisible. I'm just adding that it ***can neither be infinitely divided nor not***. I would not conclude that time does not flow, but that anything that arises has already passed, radical impermanence, suggesting that extinction and so on is already present.
Asked by user2512
Jun 8, 2018, 03:13 PM
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