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Apoha : Buddhist nominalsim and human cognition / edited by Mark Siderits, Tom Tillemans, and Arindam Chakrabarti.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhist logic.
- Nominalism.
- Negation (Logic).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
- 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
- Contents:
- How to talk about ineffable things : Dignaga and Dharma-kirti on apoha / Tom Tillemans
- Dignaga's apoha theory : its presuppositions and main theoretical implications / Ole Pind
- Key features of Dharma-kirti's apoha theory / John Dunne
- Dharma-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 Nyyamanjar / 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613793324
- 9781281961136
- 1281961132
- 9780231527385
- 0231527381
- OCLC:
- 767953010
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