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Language and Reality: On an Episode in Indian Thought (Brill's Indological Library) by Bronkhorst, Johannes; Allen, Michael S. ; Raghunathan, Rajam is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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For a number of centuries Indian philosophers of all persuasions were convinced that there was a particularly close connection between language and reality, also, or even primarily, between sentences and the situations they describe. This shared conviction was responsible for a perceived problem. Different currents in Indian philosophy can be understood as different attempts to solve this problem; these include the satkāryavāda of the Sāṃkhyas, the anekāntavāda of the Jainas, the śūnyavāda of th
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- Author
- Bronkhorst, Johannes; Allen, Michael S. ; Raghunathan, Rajam
- Publisher
- Brill ; Extenza Turpin [distributor
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781283121132
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy, Language Learning
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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