Type : MCQ

Intructions :

Directions: The following paragraph is followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the paragraph.

Question Statement :

An abhorrence of contradiction has been high orthodoxy in the West for more than 2,000 years. Statements from the East such as Nagarjuna’s, “The nature of things is to have no nature; it is their non-nature that is their nature. For they have only one nature: no-nature”, are therefore wont to produce looks of blank incomprehension, or worse. As Avicenna, the father of Medieval Aristotelianism, declared: Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.

Contradiction is not to comprehend such statements as the nature of things is that they do not have any nature.
Due to strong dislike of contradiction the West is not likely to understand contradiction or, worse, likely to strongly hate contradiction.
Nagarjuna’s statement is in strong contradiction to Avicenna’s and this is what leads to abhorrence of contradiction in the West.
The orthodox beliefs of the West are in contradiction to those of the East as demonstrated by Nagarjuna’s and Avicenna’s statements.