Indian Philosophies
INDIAN PHILOSOPHIES. Over the past four hundred years India has witnessed a break in its sociocultural and intellectual life with which it is still in the process of coming to term...
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Atomic Theory in Indian Philosophy
In classical Indian philosophy two Sanskrit words are used for the atom, the smallest impartite physical entity: "aṇu" and "paramā...
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God/Isvara in Indian Philosophy
This entry deals briefly with the Isvara concept in the six schools of philosophy in Hinduism, usually called the orthodox schools because they were thought to believe ...
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Indian Philosophy
The "India" in question is the Indian subcontinent—the land constituting present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and surrounding countries such as Srī La...
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Negation in Indian Philosophy
From the early centuries CE onward, the philosophical traditions of ancient India produced theories of negation in a broad variety of contexts, dealing with such diverse ...
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Truth and Falsity in Indian Philosophy
By and large, classical Indian philosophy treats truth within an epistemological context, and different theories of truth are connected with different theories o...
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Universal Properties in Indian Philosophical Traditions
Early Grammarians on Universals of Words and Meanings
In ancient India systematic metaphysics started with a linguistic turn. Ontological concep...
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Indian Philosophies
Atomic Theory in Indian Philosophy