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    Challenges→Buddhapālita was correct not to state and defend a Mādhyamika thesis

    A philosophical method that cannot articulate its own justification collapses into self-refuting quietism rather than rigorous dialectic.

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    • 1.Methods that cannot justify themselves rely on unexamined assumptions, undermining their claim to rigor.
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    • 2.Dialectic requires articulating reasons for one's approach; silence on method abandons rational persuasion.
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    • 3.Self-refutation occurs when a method's practice contradicts its principles, as with unjustified quietism.
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    • 1.Some methods (like phenomenological bracketing) deliberately suspend justification to access pre-conceptual truths.
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    • 2.Requiring meta-justification creates infinite regress unless some foundational methods are exempt from this demand.
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    • 3.Practical effectiveness and internal coherence can establish rigor without explicit self-articulation of justification.
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