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Meaning Of Word And Meaning

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Word and Meaning

Language is one of the fundamentals things in Indian philosophy that every school almost their own language and philosophy of their language in order to understand their sacred texts correctly. Sphota in one this theory in Ancient Indian philosophy which is seen as communication device. In the Veda, Sphota is the ‘whole sentence unites’. Sphota is considered as the word or sentence which is single indivisible meaning bearing units. It means that sentence should not be consider is being made up of single words and words by letter. In linguistic discourse, they are symbol which is the meaning bearer. they are the articulated sounds and means by which merely the symbol is revealed. The Brahmanical tradition takes language as of Divine Origin and they consider language as valid resource of knowledge. There are two schools which made significant contribution to the philosophy of language in Indian philosophy which are the Mimamsa and philosophy of Grammar. The both school believe that the words and their relation to meaning are eternal and underived and impersonal. The beginning of language is untenable. There is only one real that manifests as many of words. It means that it does not have an ended point and does not have started point. Humans understand them from their birth till to their death. However, in this paper, I will argue that the relation of word and meaning is conventional arbitrary because of factors such as polysemous, homophones and homonyms,

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