| 书目名称 | Knowing from Words | | 副标题 | Western and Indian P | | 编辑 | Bimal Krishna Matilal,Arindam Chakrabarti | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Synthese Library | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Never before, in any anthology, have contemporaryepistemologists and philosophers of language come together to addressthe single most neglected important issue at the confluence of thesetwo branches of philosophy, namely: Can we .know. facts fromreliable reports? Besides Hume‘s subversive discussion of miracles andthe literature thereon, testimony has been bypassed by most Westernphilosophers; whereas in classical Indian (Pramana) theories ofevidence and knowledge philosophical debates have raged for centuriesabout the status of word-generated knowledge..`Is the response "I was told by an expert on the subject" asrespectable as "I saw" or "I inferred" in answer to "How do youknow?"‘ is a question answered in diverse and subtle ways byBuddhists, Vaisesikas and Naiyayikas. For the first time thisbook makes available the riches of those debates, translating fromSanskrit some contemporary Indian Pandits‘ reactions to Westernanalytic accounts of meaning and knowledge..For advanced undergraduates in philosophy, for researchers - inAustralia, Asia, Europe or America - on epistemology, theory ofmeaning, Indian or comparative philosophy, as well as for specialistsinterested in this relative | | 出版日期 | Book 1994 | | 关键词 | David Hume; Proposition; Theory of Meaning; epistemology; knowledge; language; scepticism; subject | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2018-2 | | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-4287-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-017-2018-2Series ISSN 0166-6991 Series E-ISSN 2542-8292 | | issn_series | 0166-6991 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994 |
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