Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), a major figure in 20th-century analytic philosophy, rejected foundationalism and tightly linked philosophy to empirical science. He viewed knowledge not as a fixed structure, but as a dynamic, revisable network. From the perspective of the Theory of Saturation, knowledge systems function through a balance of stability (N₁), efficiency (N₂), and…

Buddhism offers a distinctive perspective on saturation and collapse, one that operates not at the level of institutional failure or political rupture, but at the level of experiential overload.Central to Buddhist psychology is the diagnosis that suffering (dukkha) arises from craving, attachment, and the incessant proliferation of desire and aversion. From the perspective of the…