Concepts, Intension, and Identity in Tibetan Philosophy of Language

Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 29 (2):383-400 (2006)
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Abstract

This article examines one highly localized set of developments to the Buddhist doctrine of word meaning that was made by twelfth and thirteenth century Tibetan Buddhist epistemologists primarily schooled at gSaṅ phu Monastery in central Tibet. I will show how these thinkers developed the notion of a concept (don spyi) in order to explain how it is that words are capable of applying to real objects, and how concepts can be used to capture elements of word meaning extending beyond reference to real objects.

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Jonathan Stoltz
University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

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