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1 online resource (viii, 333 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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How to talk about ineffable things : Dignāga and Dhārma-kirti on apoha / Tom Tillemans -- Dignāga's apoha theory : its presuppositions and main theoretical implications / Ole Pind -- Key features of Dhārma-kirti's apoha theory / John Dunne -- Dhārma-kirti's discussion of circularity / Pascale Hugon -- Apoha theory as an approach to understanding human cognition / Sh. Katsura -- The apoha theory as referred to in the Nyyamañjar / Masaaki Hattori -- Constructing the content of awareness events / Parimal G. Patil -- The apoha theory of meaning : a critical account / Prabal Kumar Sen -- Apoha as a naturalized account of concept formation / Georges Dreyfus -- Apoha, feature-placing and sensory content / Jonardon Ganeri -- Funes and categorization in an abstraction-free world / Amita Chatterjee -- Apoha semantics : some simpleminded questions and doubts / Bob Hale -- Classical semantics and apoha semantics / Brendan S. Gillon -- Rughna by dusk / Mark Siderits. |
| Summary |
Hen we understand that something is a pot, is it because of one property that all pots share? This seems unlikely, but without this common essence, it is difficult to see how we could teach someone to use the word?pot" or to see something as a pot. The Buddhist apoha theory tries to resolve this dilemma, first, by rejecting properties such as?potness" and, then, by claiming that the element uniting all pots is their very difference from all non-pots. In other words, when we seek out a pot, we select an object that is not a non-pot, and we repeat this practice with all other items and ex. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Buddhist logic.
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Buddhist logic. |
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Nominalism.
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Nominalism. |
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Negation (Logic)
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Negation (Logic) |
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Electronic books.
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Siderits, Mark, 1946-
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Tillemans, Tom J. F.
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Chakrabarti, Arindam.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780231153607 0231153600 (DLC) 2010049385 |
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0231527381 (electronic book) |
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9780231527385 (electronic book) |
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9780231153607 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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0231153600 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780231153614 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0231153619 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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