On National Public Radio this morning, I heard theologian Joseph Price talk about how he was struck by the similarity of how the people looked in pictures a...
Geopolitics and Sanskrit Phobia Another powerful, ingenious, hard hitting analysis by the Indian American public intellectual, Rajiv Malhotra. Sanjay Rajiv...
Does language structure learning? How? Can someone on this board outline the current thinking on this? ... intellectual, Rajiv Malhotra. ... contain a built-in...
People from different cultures experience the world differently; that is, people from different cultures experience different conceptual gestalts. That's why ...
Addendum: Etymology of these concepts don't tell much about the experiential world. Indologists, and social scientists in their wake, think that etymological...
It is agreed that scientific method is neither deductive nor inductive; however, it is retroductive in the sense that observer notices a pattern against the...
... Language plays role in lending structure: akshara = durable, stable, etc ... Assuming that there is no word to designate 'headache' in the native language...
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Interesting extract from an essentially political article in yesterday's New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/magazine/17DEMOCRATS.html? ...
Dear Sarah and Jakob, I read your article with much interest. I agree substantially with your stand and your account rings 'true'. The question of what is...
Oddly enough, this is the very subject I was discussing with someone the other day. Some thoughts that came up during the conversation follow - wondering what...
I don't think it is only the people from the West who use subjective and objective distinction. You can ask many indians, they concur that there exists such a...
... Dear Satya, I think we tend to mix up two separate concepts: Satya, which means "truth" and Sat which means "that which is". The concepts are related...
Dear Kannan and Satya, It will take time to discover "the truth about truth." One of the problems is that even the way in which the West has discussed "truth"...
"My work always tried to unite the Truth with the Beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the Beautiful. - Hermann Weyl" ( More...
Dear Jakob, ... --Could your question be satisfied by pointing to the explanatory role science plays? It's a series of true propositions that are also...
Dear vnr:I agree on both counts. Indians do distinguish between subjective and objective, but I don't know if it's the same distinction. I'm not even sure if...
Suggestion: When saying that their religion was also true, that all religions are true, the Hindus mean valid (well-grounded, efficacious). When Christians...
... Advaitins? I have only ... Dear Satya, There is nothing to add to this debate, except that modern rendering/understanding of that is pure nonsense in the...
... it ... is no ... an ... may ... not a ... or ... based ... Atma ... it ... (anatta) ... debates ... various ... in ... --Dear vnr: If the debate between...
Dear Satya, The question is not so much what distinguishes science from a series of trivially true propositions, but how it could be "the search for truth"...
... In a way, these traditions are not flourishing: when these practioners try to explicate, they fall back on western 'common sense' in order to explain to...
Dear Jakob: A couple of positions, one of which is refomulating Indian traidtions are intersting, Balu has taken: (1) Balu said, "But one does not do this...
While the following paper is not the norm of papers written in physics, you may nonetheless find it interesting. http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/0507235 ...
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