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Author: Sadhan Chakraborti, Gangadhar Kar
Publisher: Suryodaya Books
Pub. Year: 2025
Edition: 1 st
Pages: 178
Size: 22
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Weight: 404
Territory: World
Book Contents: Introduction 1
— Sadhan Chakraborty
— Gangadhar Kar
1. Silence 5
— Sandhya Basu
2. The Concept of Saṁhitā: A Formal Approach 21
— Piyali Palit
3. The Meaning of Sva in Its Own Trajectory 35
— Madhu Kapoor
4. Rasāsvādanam: A Perspective on Aesthetic Enjoyment 59
— Madhu Kapoor
5. Jātiśaktivāda and the Grounds for Its Acceptance 85
— Gangadhar Kar
6. The Problem of Meaning in Mind 97
— Madhucchanda Sen
7. Understanding of I-statements in British 115
Empiricist Tradition
— Samar Kumar Mondal
8. Language of Images 137
— Kakali Ghoshal
Index 161
Description: The theme of this collection of essays emerges from the area of interface between mind and language. The volume aims at exploring certain philosophical truths relating to the syntax and the semantics of the language we think in and the language we use for a purpose.
These essays are written from the Western philosophical perspective as well as from the Indian philosophical perspective. The philosophical research pursued by the contributors of this volume extends to the Indian schools of Navya-Nyāya, Vaiśeṣika, R̥gveda, Vedāṅga, Mīmāṁsā, Vyākaraṇa and Vedānta.
On the Western counterpart it covers the philosophical researches of British empiricists, Descartes, logical positivists, Quine, Davidson, cognitive scientists, linguists like Chomsky and others. Serious researchers in the area of syntax and semantics either in the Western tradition or in the Indian tradition will have important materials relevant to their research in reading this collection.
Students of philosophy, linguistics and cognitive science, and general readers interested in the areas of syntax and semantics will benefit immensely from consulting this collection.