Again on the epistemology and ontology of #absence ( #abhāva). The author (Helen Beebee) does not want to accept an ontological status of absences and therefore defends the seemingly counter-intuitive view that absence cannot have any causal power (since it is not an event). 1/4 https://twitter.com/wesbuc/status/1246415525653217282

She also accounts for our linguistic habit of attributing causal power to absences (so, she accounts for what Sanskrit philosophers call the lokavyavahāra). Last, she mentions the criterion of relevance for discussing absences: you only mention absences that are relevant 2/4

compare with #Kumārila's idea that absences depend on what you expected to grasp (via jighṛkṣā or udbhūti). 3/4

Long story short, a talk that could easily enter in a dialogue with Sanskrit authors discussing on abhāva. I hope someone is going to engage with it in this sense. 4/4 #GlobalPhilosophy