#vitanda

⇄ Vitaṇḍā is not always illegitimate: a critic with no thesis can still be doing philosophy

There is one problem in Nāgārjuna I have been chewing on for a long time. The Nyāya tradition calls vitaṇḍā illegitimate: one party only attacks and never defends a position, so they risk nothing and cannot be wrong. That seems fair as…