Knowing from Words
Matilal
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Knowing from Words

Western and Indian Philosophical Analysis of Understanding and Testimony

Herausgegeben: Matilal, Bimal K.; Chakrabarti, A.
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Never before, in any anthology, have contemporary epistemologists and philosophers of language come together to address the single most neglected important issue at the confluence of these two branches of philosophy, namely: Can we know facts from reliable reports? Besides Hume's subversive discussion of miracles and the literature thereon, testimony has been bypassed by most Western philosophers; whereas in classical Indian (Pramana) theories of evidence and knowledge philosophical debates have raged for centuries about the status of word-generated knowledge. `Is the response "I was told by a...