#self-refutation

¶ Nāgārjuna says he has no thesis. Is “I have no thesis” itself a thesis?

There is a question I keep returning to, the oldest one in the long argument between Advaitins and Mādhyamikas. In the Vigrahavyāvartanī, answering a critic who says his claim that all things are empty refutes itself, Nāgārjuna says (I paraphrase): if I…