Pratyabhijña Apoha Theory, Shannon–Weaver ¯ Information, Saussurean Structure, and Peircean Interpretant Agency
Journal Title: Religions - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 6
Abstract
This paper builds upon my earlier studies in interpreting interculturally how the Kashmiri nondual Saiva thinkers Upaladeva (c. 900–950 CE) and Abhinavagupta (c. 950–1020 CE) in their ´ Pratyabhijña philosophical theology respond to and reinterpret the Buddhist semantic theory of ¯ reference as the exclusion of the inapplicable (anyapoha ¯ ). It engages the issues in the Pratyabhijña¯ debate with the Buddhists, with the interrelations of Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver’s theory of Information, Saussurean structuralist semiotics, and Peircean pragmatic semiotics.
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David Peter Lawrence
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