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There were none, as they had understood the substance to be intended for use in mattresses.
Thus emptiness only exists as long as svabhāva understood as substance is mistakenly projected onto some object or other.
For example, even Léon Rosenfeld, one of Bohr's closest students and collaborators, recalls Bohr's annoyance over his failure to have correctly understood the substance of this principle (Rosenfeld [1973] 1979, p. 690).
The interesting problem arising here is that for the Madhyamaka the true nature of phenomena is emptiness, i.e. the absence of svabhāva understood as substance, and that svabhāva understood in this way is also characterized as not brought about by any causal process, as unchangeable and as independent of any other object.
This makes his monism far more restrictive than existence monism (perhaps it is best understood as substance dualism plus material existence monism: monism about the material objects as counted by tokens), and makes his claim to represent the actual Eleatic view rather questionable.
It is important to realize that svabhāva understood as substance that Nāgārjuna rejects is not a theoretical posit, an entity an insufficiently sophisticated philosopher might postulate, but a kind of cognitive default, a way of superimposing something onto the world that is automatic and immediate and not the result of detailed theoretical reflection.
