TY - BOOK AU - Bronkhorst, Johannes, TI - Language and reality: on an episode in Indian thought T2 - Brill`s Indological library SN - 9789004204355 (hardback : alk. paper) AV - B132.S4 B7613 2011 PY - 0000///201 CY - Boston PB - Brill KW - Philosophy, Indic KW - History. 0 KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophy KW - Reference (Philosophy) KW - Reality N1 - Includes bibliographical references and inde; Aim of the lectures -- Early Brahmanical literature -- Panini`s grammar -- A passage from the Chandogya Upanisad -- The structures of languages -- The Buddhist contribution -- Vaisesika and language -- Verbal knowledge -- The contradictions of Nagarjuna -- The reactions of other thinkers -- Sarvastivada Samkhya -- The Agamasastra of Gaudapada -- Sankara -- Kashmiri Saivism -- Jainism -- Early Vaisesika -- Critiques of the existence of a thing before its arising -- Nyaya -- Mimamsa -- The Abhidharmakosa bhasya of Vasubandhu -- The Abhidharmasamuccaya of Asanga and its bhasya -- Bhartrhari -- The problem of negation -- Dignaga and verbal knowledge -- The Bodhisattvabhumi -- Prajnakaragupta -- Indian thinkers and the correspondence principle -- Appendix. The Mahaprajnaparamitasastra and the Samkhya tanmatra ER -