PREFACE
PREFACE
• Nāgārjuna wields logic (prasanga reductio, coherent negation in the koṭis) to exhaust views and reveal śūnyatā.
• But the Dean Paradox proves logic falsifies reality—it denies motion while motion occurs (P ∧ ¬P instantiated).
• Thus, the tetralemma—built on that logic—can’t point reliably. Its negations are warped; its “exhaustion” is illusory.
• Even “provisional” or “conventional” use is tainted: the raft has a hole burned through by the paradox.
• Result: Madhyamaka doesn’t transcend the contradiction; it embodies and ignores it. “Ruins” indeed—another painted veil.
Dean’s tone: Satirical thunder. He laughs at the idea that deconstructing with a broken tool cant point at the moon . The “pointing points at nothing”