Stephen Phillips
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624 appearances
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first heard Sep 2021
last heard Sep 2021
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Well, you know, um how does a a sentence uh give us new knowledge?
And what's the basic relationship between the the the sentence and the
Fact.
that it would convey to a hearer, b uh b you know, if a speaker knows the truth and
to con convey it faithfully.
Well, it's not just a referential relationship.
There's there's there's uh indirect indication, lakshana.
And then this notion of lakshana of of not following the normal convention of relations between words and objects, but you know, innovating uh and meaning something.
in what we might say in English is a metaphoric way.
Well
That tool of philosophy of language is then used in the ontological concept by context by some of Gangesha's opponents of the school known as Mumamsa to argue for universals.
That we're always uh we're always indirectly indicating, or there's this there's this sort of metaphorical relationship to the universal when we refer to.
particulars, etcetera, etc, etc.
That's just one example of how the ontology gets all bound up with with the epistemology and sometimes
Sometimes I think um even Gangesha, who's very clear sighted, does um
uh get uh too absorbed in in minor um uh ontological uh concerns and and and and and you and you lo and it's very easy to lose the big picture.
Because 'cause they they are very intricate issues.
I mean, you know, m maybe universals you know just think of the history of y uh the topic of universals in Western philosophy.
I mean, nowadays, after Wittgenstein and a whole bunch of others uh criticizing him, maybe there are not very many
uh realist about universals, but boy, they sure were in the history of philosophy from Plato to Aristotle and so on.
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