This book contains an elaborate discussion of different western and Indian theories of language, a comparative study of epistemology of authority, and Navya-Nyaya theories of meaning of words, and of sentences of different moods–indicative, imperative, optative,–and also of ought-sentences.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sibajiban Bhattacharyya
Sibajiban Bhattacharyya, formerly B.N. Seal Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, Calcutta University, taught philosophy for forty-five years in different Universities and Institutes in India and abroad. He has published several books, edited Journals and books in philosophy, both Indian and Euro-American, and has published a large number of articles, discussion notes, and reviews in different Journals, Anthologies, Encyclopaedias, Indian and foreign. He was Professor and Head of the Departments both at Burdwan and North Bengal Universities. Professor Bhattacharyya was also a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. He is currently a National Fellow in Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla.
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