Some reflections on AN 1:328 and MN49

[josephzizys]

@Soren

there is nothing else

Is wrong.

Just like

“There is something else”

Is wrong.

See

TO BE OR NOT TO BE, the undeclared points in the 4 principle Nikayas:

TO BE OR NOT TO BE (or both, or neither) The undeclared points in the 4 principle Nikayas. The undeclared points are a number of questions, typically ten, but sometimes as few as two, as at SN44.10, and sometimes as many as 11, as at AN10.95, and often 4, as at SN12.17. This essay focuses on the standard set of ten, and looks at the differing explanations given for the Buddha’s silence in the different suttas. We first see the undeclared points introduced at DN1 and DN2, where they are used to…

For a pretty comprehensive list of examples where the “is/isnt/both/niether something else” is rejected and the reasons why.