[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925) › v2.c41.s8.41 # The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c41.s8.41 The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c41.s8.41 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c41.s8.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c41.s8.41) ⁸ vi. 2. 1, 2; \*contra\*, v. 19. 1; TU. ii. 7; the absolute includes both being and not-being in the Muṇḍaka (ii. 2. 1) and Praçna (ii. 5). The fourfold treatment of being, not-being, being and not-being, neither being nor not-being is first developed in Buddhist texts. For dialectic comparable in quality with that of Gorgias we must wait until such texts as the Māṇḍūkya Kārikā (e. g. iv. 3 f., 83) or Nāgārjuna (Keith, \*Buddhist Philosophy\*, pp. 237 ff.). Cf. for Gorgias, Reinhardt, pp. 37 ff.; Gomperz, \*Greek Thinkers\*, i. 482 ff.; Plato’s \*Sophist\*. - [Previous: v2.c41.s8.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c41.s8.40) - [Next: v2.c42.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c42.1) - [Up: v2.c41.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c41.s8) ## Linked texts (5) - [Chāndogyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya.6.2.1) — Sanskrit - [Āgamaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.sastra.agamasastra.4.3) — Gauḍapāda, Sanskrit - [Praśnopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna.2.5) — Pippalāda, Sanskrit - [Muṇḍakopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2.1) — Sanskrit - [Taittirīyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.taittiriya.2.7) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c41.s8.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c41.s8.41) · Pramāṇa