Breaking the Circle. Dharmakīrti’s Response to the Charge of Circularity Against the Apoha Theory and its Tibetan Adaptation

Abstract This paper examines the Buddhist’s answer to one of the most famous (and more intuitive) objections against the semantic theory of “exclusion” (apoha), namely, the charge of circularity. If the understanding of X is not reached positively, but X is understood via the exclusion of non-X, the...
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Autor*in:

Hugon, P. [verfasserIn]

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E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2009

Schlagwörter:

Buddhism

Epistemology

Theory of language

Nominalism

Circularity

Dharmakīrti

Sa skya Paṇḍita

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Enthalten in: Journal of Indian philosophy - Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V, 1970, 37(2009), 6 vom: 07. Nov.

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volume:37 ; year:2009 ; number:6 ; day:07 ; month:11

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DOI / URN:

10.1007/s10781-009-9077-9

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SPR013212338

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