ABSTRACT
As we have seen, Buddhist scepticism says that the character of ‘things in themselves’ is not and cannot be known. The Awakened Buddhists are those people who realize and accept this. They thus let go of the craving for and attachment to such knowledge. However, in this chapter I want to explore the possibility that, by contrast, some Buddhists contend that there is a special, non-conceptual and ineffable knowledge of ‘things in themselves’ achieved by Awakened people. This is scepticism with a mystical twist. It claims that ‘things in themselves’ are concealed behind the veil of the mind’s fabricating activity but not irrevocably. Awakened people stop the fabricating and thus see the ‘things in themselves’ in an insight which is not describable, given the falsifying nature of all language.
