Philosophy of Language - An Indian Perspective

Hardly there is any other country in the world that has paid so much attention to language, its nature and function, its relation with the whole universe and with man. In this paper I want to highlight some of these aspects as reflected in Sanskrit Philosophical and Systematic literature. 1.0 Human Behaviour A human being

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झा भारतीय भाषा-दर्शन का सार प्रस्तुत करते हैं — ज्ञान से प्रेरित व्यवहार, प्रमाणों में शब्द का स्थान तथा शाब्दबोध की शर्तें। वाक्यार्थ-विषयक अभिहितान्वय, अन्विताभिधान, तात्पर्य और संसर्गमर्यादा सिद्धान्तों की तुलना करते हुए वे शाब्दबोध-विश्लेषण में विश्लेषणात्मक दर्शन का बीज देखते हैं। Jha sets out the Indian philosophy of language: behaviour prompted by cognition, shabda among the pramanas, and the conditions of verbal understanding. He compares the abhihitanvaya, anvitabhidhana, tatparya and samsargamaryada accounts of sentence meaning, and finds in shabdabodha analysis the seed of analytic philosophy.

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