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`Is the response "I was told by an expert on the subject" as respectable as "I saw" or "I inferred" in answer to "How do you know?"' is a question answered in diverse and subtle ways by Buddhists, Vaisesikas and Naiyayikas. For the first time this book makes available the riches of those debates, translating from Sanskrit some contemporary Indian Pandits' reactions to Western analytic accounts of meaning and knowledge.
For advanced undergraduates in philosophy, for researchers - in Australia, Asia, Europe or America - on epistemology, theory of meaning, Indian or comparative philosophy, as well as for specialists interested in this relatively fresh topic of knowledge transmission and epistemic dependence this book will be a feast.
After its publication analytic philosophy and Indian philosophy will have no excuse for shunning each other.
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Book Title: Knowing from Words
Book Subtitle: Western and Indian Philosophical Analysis of Understanding and Testimony
Editors: Bimal Krishna Matilal, Arindam Chakrabarti
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2018-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2345-7Published: 31 December 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4287-3Published: 15 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2018-2Published: 29 June 2013
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 390
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Non-Western Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion