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I wish to discuss the problems connected with proper names, i.e. the names that we give to individuals in order to designate them. I shall discuss the views of the Indian philosophers in this regard; in fact I shall follow the Nyāya school. Before I deal with proper names, however, I must discuss some general problems connected with words or linguistic utterances and their role in generating knowledge.
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This is their doctrine of svarûpa-sambandha,’self-connecting’ or ‘self-same’ relations. See Matilal, B. K. The Navya-Nyāya Doctrine of Negation,Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1968.
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Bhattacharya, V. (1994). Proper Names and Individuals. In: Matilal, B.K., Chakrabarti, A. (eds) Knowing from Words. Synthese Library, vol 230. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2018-2_16
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