Indian Epistemology and the World and the Individual
EPISTEMOLOGY' CAN discuss the problem of the world and the individual by answering the two main questions: (1) How are the world and the individual cognized?2 and (2) Since knowledge is communicated in language, how are the concepts of the world and the individual expressed? Some languages may not have developed a philosophy of themselves, but Sanskrit has its own philosophies, not merely one but many. Of them, the philosophy of the Grammarians is the most pertinent. Our second question has, therefore, to include the question, What place do the world and the individual occupy in the philosophy of language?