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Title Apoha : Buddhist nominalism and human cognition / edited by Mark Siderits, Tom Tillemans, Arindam Chakrabarti
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
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Description viii, 333 pages ; 23 cm
Contents How to talk about ineffable things : Dignāga and Dhārma-kirti on apoha / Tom Tillemans -- Dignāga's apoha theory : its presuppositions and main theoretical implications / Ole Pind -- Key features of Dhārma-kirti's apoha theory / John Dunne -- Dhārma-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 Nyyamañjar / 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Buddhist logic.
Nominalism.
Negation (Logic)
Author Siderits, Mark, 1946-
Tillemans, Tom J. F.
Chakrabarti, Arindam.
LC no. 2010049385
ISBN 9780231153607 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231153600 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231153614 (paperback: alk. paper)
0231153619 (paperback: alk. paper)