TY - BOOK ID - 77935685 TI - Language and reality : on an episode in Indian thought AU - Bronkhorst, Johannes AU - ebrary, Inc. PY - 2011 SN - 1283121131 9786613121134 9004204741 9789004204744 9789004204355 9004204350 9781283121132 6613121134 PB - Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophy, Indic KW - Reality KW - Reference (Philosophy) KW - Philosophy KW - Truth KW - Nominalism KW - Pluralism KW - Pragmatism KW - Referring, Theory of KW - Theory of referring KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77935685 AB - 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 the Buddhists, and many others. By bringing to light the shared problem underlying almost all schools of Indian philosophy, this book shows the interconnectedness of currents that had hitherto been thought of as quite independent of each other. ER -