Tag: Kumārila Bhaṭṭa
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It’s been five months since I arrived in Scotland to spend a semester as Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. When I arrived, the days were long, the sun setting between nine and ten at night. Now, darkness falls at four in the afternoon, usually accompanied by rain. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed…
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The principle of compositionality is, essentially, the claim that the meaning of a sentence is determined by the meaning of its constituent parts (words and phrases) and the structure of those parts. This principle is often attributed to Gottlob Frege, but Indian philosophers have discussed versions of this principle and objections to it, as B.…