Abstract
This essay seeks to explain the somewhat paradoxical Yogācāra Buddhist view of the possibility of non-conceptual language use (under what is called 'subsequent awareness', tatpṛṣṭhalabdhajñāna). The essay unpacks the school's understanding of non-conceptuality, drawing extensively on contemporary non-conceptualist theory, as well as on conceptualist accounts that are referred to here as "inclusivist." It is argued that the inclusivists' proposal that we view conceptual articulation itself as a form of practical-skillful action presents some intriguing affinities (but also important disaffinities) with the Yogācāra conception of language use, and takes us some way toward understanding what a concept is for a Yogācāra Buddhist.
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