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- Metaphysics (en)
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- The gods came after this world's production, (en)
- Then was not non-existent nor existent: (en)
- Was water there, unfathomed depth of water? (en)
- What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? (en)
- Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation? (en)
- Who knows then whence it first came into being?" (en)
- Who really knows? Who will here proclaim it? (en)
- there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it. (en)
- Nyaya-Vaisheshika offers one of the most vigorous efforts at the construction of a substantialist, realist ontology that the world has ever seen. It provides an extended critique of event-ontologies and idealist metaphysics. This ontology is Platonistic, realistic, but neither exclusively physicalistic nor phenomenalistic. (en)
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