“...a theory of meaning for a particular language should be conceived by a philosopher as describing the practice of linguistic interchange by speakers of the language without taking it as already understood what it is to have a language at all: that is what, by imagining such a theory, we are trying to make explict." – Michael Dummer (2004: 31)
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Arnold, D. On Semantics and Saṃketa: Thoughts on a Neglected Problem with Buddhist Apoha Doctrine. J Indian Philos 34, 415–478 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-006-9001-5
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