Download or read book Emptiness Appraised written by David F. Burton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence - entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowledge are shown to be unconvincing.