myth of the given See SELLARS, WILFRID. Nagarjuna (fl. early second century A.D.), Indian Mahayana Buddhist philosopher, founder of the Madhyamika view. The Mulanadhyamakarika Prajña (‘The Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way’) and the Sunyatasaptati (‘The Septuagint on Emptiness’) are perhaps his major works. He distinguishes between ‘two truths’: a conditional truth, which is provisional and reflects the sort of distinctions we make in everyday speech and find in ordinary experience; and a final truth, which is that there exists only an ineffable independent reality. Overcoming acceptance of the conventional, conditional truth is requisite for seeing the final truth in enlightenment. See also MAADHYAMIK. K.E.Y.