http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4188 2026-04-15T21:22:04Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4573 Title: Development of Knowledge in Pre-Colonial India: A Peep through the Lens of Historical Epistemology Authors: Gurukkal, Rajan Abstract: Knowledge is a term semantically so entrenched that nobody feels like asking what it means. Let us define it as awareness of what, when, where, who, how and why with or without confirmation. Possession of the skill or craft to perform an act or produce an artefact is also a kind of knowledge. It is impossible to delineate the sequential development of knowledge in time, even out of its orally or literally articulated and codified type. 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4571 Title: Captive Consciousness and the New Jabberwocky Authors: Dasgupta, Probal Abstract: Citing semi-public jokes is not an enterprise for which one can easily find bibliographic support. One must, therefore, appeal to the memory of linguists who used to work or study at American universities in the 1970s for corroboration when one recalls a conference, held either in Chicago or in some other Midwestern university, which purported dealt with the languages of the Soviet Union but was informally called ‘the captive languages conference’. 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4569 Title: A Note On Understanding Authors: Sayeed, Syed A. Abstract: This article is an attempt to draw attention to a fundamental, obvious yet elusive distinction that has largely remained insufficiently noticed throughout the history of western thought. It is the distinction between ‘knowledge’ and ‘understanding’. Owing to this failure to notice this fundamental distinction, ‘understanding’ has never been recognized as a distinct, autonomous, epistemic category. 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4568 Title: Meaning: An Approach from Alternative Standpoints Authors: Gupta, Amitabha Das Abstract: Philosophers widely differ on their conception of meaning. To say this is to imply that there are alternative ways of conceptualizing meaning which gives rise to alternative conceptions of meaning. This important fact regarding meaning shows, first, that meaning may not be perceived as a homogeneous concept and, second, that there are alternative philosophical or linguistic standpoints due to which we have these alternative conceptualizations of meaning. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z