Zen and the unsayable
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2009
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Mortensen, C.
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Pointing at the Moon. Buddhism, Logic, Analytic Philosophy, 2009, vol.9780195381559, pp.3-12
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Chris Mortensen
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This chapter explores the limits of the sayable in the context of Zen stories, arguing that the very fact that Zen addresses our mode of prereflective engagement with the world-a mode of engagement that is in important ways precognitive-means that much of what Zen has to teach us must be shown, and not said. This language, of course, is redolent of the Tractatus.
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Copyright 2009 Oxford University Press, Inc.