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Oxford University Press Artha Meaning Testimony the Theory of Meaning in Indian Philosphical Analysis by Jonardon Ganeri
"A word has the power to stand for an object. And the capacity to understand words gives people the power to acquire knowledge. This relationhip between a semantic and an epistemic power has been a core concern for Indian philosophers of language down the ages. In this second volume in the foundations of philosophy in India series (the first was CIT: Consciousness by Bina Gupta), Jonardon Ganeri, examines theories of meaning or artha. He discusses approaches in different schools of thoguht: Grammarian, Mimamsika, Buddhist, early Naiyayika, Navya Naiyayika, and Vedantian, highlighting the significant relationhip between ""word"" and ""meaning/knowledge/knowing"". Students and scholars of philosophy and liguistics, history, sociology, and anthropology, as well as those working on philosophical and liturgical texts will find this book an enlightening and rewarding read."