Anattata in Buddhist Philosophy by Gorge Grimm

Abstract

According to Gorge Grimm, the Buddhist doctrine of anattata didn’t deny the existence of atta (self) arguing that the truth of atta is a self-evident truth; it was the presupposition for our perception; five khandhas (aggregates) were not atta, atta was not five khandhas,  and that the Buddhist sayings that denied attadenied merely that five khandhas were anatta but didn’t deny the other thing that was  atta, it was not five khandhas, it was not what we understood. However, Grimm’s arguments werefallacious or involved logical errors, especially irrelevant conclusions or drawing the conclusions over the premises, i.e. he interpreted the meanings of the Buddha’s sayings over those they conveyed.