The Word and The World: India's Contribution to the Study of Language, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 9788120841338

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The Word and The World: India's Contribution to the Study of Language

Bimal Krishna Matilal (Author)

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About the Book This Book provides a concise yet comprehensive account of the arguments of classical Indian philosophers, Sanskrit Grammarians, and literary critics about the origins and nature of language. it also delves into the theories of meaning and the related problems of universals, the connection between the ordinary meaning and the profundity of sense in a literary composition, the question of what is sayable, and what can be shown but not said in language. This volume lies at.

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About the author

Bimal Krishna Matilal

Bimal Krishna Mitilal was Jubilee Scholar in 1954-56, and recipient of Hem Chandra Goswami Prize and Gold Medal in 1956. He was a Harvard-Yenching Fellow in 1962-64. Having obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard in 1965, he started teaching at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has been the Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University and a Fellow of All Souls College. He was the founder-editor of the journal of Indian Philosophy. Among his important works are: The Navya-nyaya Doctrine of Negation; Epistemology, Logic and Grammar in Indian Philosophical Analysis; The Central Philosophy of Jainism Nyaya-Vaisesika; Logical and Ethical Issues of Religious Belief etc.

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