A Hindu Critique of Buddhist Epistemology by Taber John A. Kumārila Bhaṭṭa

Author:Taber, John A.,Kumārila Bhaṭṭa. [Taber, John A.,Kumārila Bhaṭṭa.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2011-09-11T04:30:00+00:00

If words are superimposed onto their meanings, thereby obscuring the meanings, how could they stand in the relation of qualifier–qualificand to each other?108 For such a relation can only be ascertained by comprehending the relation of the meanings of words to each other. We know that the expression ‘fig tree’ serves to qualify or specify the meaning of the expression ‘tree’ only because we know that fig trees are a subclass of trees. If we were only aware of the words when we employed them and not their meanings, such a relation would never emerge. The words ‘fig tree’ and ‘tree’ by themselves reveal no relationship of qualifier–thing qualified to each other, anymore than do the words ‘pot’, ‘cloth’, etc.

195ab. And there would be no grammatical coordination [of words], like the cognitions of words.

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