The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought
In his letter to B. K. Matilal, dated February 20, 1977, the author of this book wrote about his work on Advaita-Vedanta: " ... It was not to present Advaita in the light of current problems of the logic of scientific discovery and modern philosophy of language ... but just the contrary. I do n...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1988, 1988
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1988 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Table of Contents:
- I / Hindu Systems of Thought as Epistemic Disciplines
- I. The Science of Philosophies
- II. The Mechanism of Organization
- III. The Structural Design
- IV. Para-Methodology
- V. Modality and Modalization
- VI. The Self-Developing Culture and Text
- VII. Six Epistemic Disciplines Unfolding Into One Another
- VIII. Modal Semiotics and the Categories of Philosophical Thinking
- IX. Six Entries into the World of Philosophical Reflections
- X. Summa Philosophiae
- II / The Birth of ‘Meaning’: A Systematic Genealogy of Indian Semantics
- I. Segregation of Meaning and Language
- II. The Rgveda in the Making: A Meaningful Activity Without ‘Meaning’
- III. The Nirukta: A Knot of Semantic and Etymological Problems
- IV. P?nini: Separating and Interconnecting Language and Logic
- V. The Individual and the Universal in Language and Knowledge
- III / Dialectics in Kant and in the Ny?ya-S?tra: Toward the History of the Formation of Formal Logical Thinking
- VIII. Prayojana of the Vedic Realization by the Netiv?da Method: The Intuition of a Theory
- VI / Is The Bodhisattva a Skeptic? On the Trichotomy of ‘Indicative’, ‘Recollective’, and ‘Collective’ Signs
- VII / Hindu Values and Buddhism: An Exemplary Discourse
- I. Methodological
- II. Theoretical
- II.1. The Mim?msa Normology
- VIII / Understanding Cultural Traditions Through Types of Thinking
- I. Level of Absolute Reality
- II. Level of Phenomenation
- III. Level of Absolute Irreality
- IX / The Family of Hindu ‘Visions’ as Cultural Entities
- Notes and References
- Bibliography: Selected Works of David Zilberman
- IV / The Canonical Self in the World of Knowledge: A Note on Ny?ya Gnoseology
- V / Revelation in Advaita Ved?nta as an Experiment in the Semantic Destruction of Language
- I. Theoretical Basis of the Possibility of Coming to Know Brahman (Pary?ya)
- II. Intuitive Basis of the Possibility of Coming to Know Brahman (Prayojana)
- III. Pary?ya of the First Stage of Reflection from the Structure of the Text to the Nature of Brahman: The Theory of False Attribution and its Sublation (Transcendence)
- IV. Prayojana of the First Stage of Reflection: The Intuition of False Attribution and its Sublation (Transcendence)
- V. Pary?ya of the Second Stage of Reflection: The Theory of Brahman Shown in a Metaphoric Occurrence (Laksan?vritti)
- VI. Prayojana of the Second Stage of Reflection: Intuition of Brahman Shown by theMethod of Metamorphic Definition
- VII. Language Inappropriateness Exposed and Brahman Demonstrated by the Netiv?da Method: The Theory of Intuition (Pary?ya)