REVISITING THE DEBATE ON CONSCIOUSNESS AND LANGUAGE IN INDIAN CONTEXT
Keywords:
Language, Cognition, ŚabdaAbstract
Understanding the nature of language has been one of the prime concerns of philosophies in ancient India. Indian intellectuals have been constantly debating on the role of language in cognitive process - whether language manifests meaning (artha) of objects or constitutes them. What is the relationship between language and cognition? Notably, consciousness and language are interwoven in such a way that one cannot comprehend the former without taking into account the nuances and intricacies of the latter. However, all the philosophical systems have reflected on the above questions but, specifically, debates on language and cognition have been centred among three systems of philosophy: Grammarians, Mīmāṃsākas, Buddhism.
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