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Empty Subject Terms in Buddhist Logic: Dignāga and his Chinese Commentators |
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| 著者 |
Yao, Zhi-hua
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| 掲載誌 |
Journal of Indian Philosophy
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| 巻号 | v.37 n.4 |
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| 出版年月日 | 2009.08 |
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| ページ | 383 - 398 |
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| 出版者 | Springer |
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| 出版サイト |
http://www.springer.com/gp/
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| 出版地 | Berlin, Germany [柏林, 德國] |
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| 資料の種類 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| 言語 | 英文=English |
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| 抄録 | The problem of empty terms is one of the focal issues in analytic philosophy. Russell’s theory of descriptions, a proposal attempting to solve this problem, attracted much attention and is considered a hallmark of the analytic tradition. Scholars of Indian and Buddhist philosophy, e.g., McDermott, Matilal, Shaw and Perszyk, have studied discussions of empty terms in Indian and Buddhist philosophy. But most of these studies rely heavily on the Nyāya or Navya-Nyāya sources, in which Buddhists are portrayed as opponents to be defeated, and thus do not truly reflect Buddhist views on this issue. The present paper will explore how Dignāga, the founder of Buddhist logic, deals with the issue of empty subject terms. His approach is subtle and complicated. On the one hand, he proposes a method of paraphrase that resembles Russell’s theory of descriptions. On the other, by relying on his philosophy of language—the apoha theory, he tends to fall into a panfictionalism. Through the efforts of his follower Dharmakīrti, the latter approach would become more acceptable among Indian and Tibetan Buddhists. Dignāga’s Chinese commentators, who were free from the influence of Dharmakīrti, dealt with the empty term issue in three ways: (1) by adhering to Dignāga’s method of paraphrase; (2) by allowing exceptions for non-implicative negation; and (3) by indicating the propositional attitude of a given proposition. Among these, the third proved most popular. |
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| ISSN | 00221791 (P); 15730395 (E) |
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| ヒット数 | 752 |
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| 作成日 | 2009.08.31 |
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| 更新日期 | 2019.07.29 |
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