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Different views on the relation between phenomenal reality, the world as one consciously experiences it, and noumenal reality, the world as it is independent from an experiencing subject, have different implications for a collection of interrelated issues of meaning and reality including aspects of metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and philosophical methodology. Exploring some of these implications, this chapter compares and brings together analytic, continental, and Buddhist traditions, focusing on relevant aspects of the philosophy of Donald Davidson, Jacques Derrida, Dharmakirti, and Dogen. This chapter argues that Davidson's theory of triangulation as a connection between the noumenal and the phenomenal needs Dignaga and Dharmakirti's theory of apoha as a complement, and that apoha is best understood through Derrida's difference in turn; and that the resulting theory leads to a view on meaning and reality similar to Dogen's perspectivism. Keywords:analytic philosophy; apoha; Buddhist tradition; continental tradition; Derrida; Dignaga; meaning; reality; triangulation |
