Philosophy of language in the Five Nikayas

by K.T.S. Sarao | 2013 | 141,449 words

Buddhism Theravada

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This page relates ‘Language and Meaning as Reflected in the Five Nikayas’ of the study of the Philosophy of language in the Five Nikayas, from the perspective of linguistics. The Five Nikayas, in Theravada Buddhism, refers to the five books of the Sutta Pitaka (“Basket of Sutra”), which itself is the second division of the Pali Tipitaka of the Buddhist Canon (literature).

Chapter 3 - Language and Meaning as Reflected in the Five Nikāyas

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2. Theories of Meaning

3. Semantics (study of formal theories of meaning)

4. Sense as a Criterion of Identification of a Reference

5. Grice on Speaker’s Meaning and Sentence-Meaning

6. Distinctive Issues of the Five Nikāyas

6.1. Buddhist Terms: Dhamma

6.2. Buddhist Terms: Nibbāna

6.3. The Four Noble Truths

6.4. The Thirty-Seven Aids (Factors of Enlightenment)

6.5. The Four Planes of Liberation (The Four Noble Persons)

6.6. The Four Jhānas and the Four Arūpajjhānas

6.7. The Attainment of the Cessation of Perception and Feeling

7. Contexts of Language and Meaning in the Five Nikāyas

8. The Faith and the Truth

9. Methodological Characteristics of the Five Nikāyas

Last Updated: 05 December, 2022

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