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Ellena Michnik-Zilberman. Introduction. In: David Zilberman. The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought. Edited by Robert S. Cohen. In: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 102, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster/Tokyo: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1988, p.XXI.
Zilberman, D. The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought. Russian translation by Helena Gourko is now available (David Zilberman. Genesis znacheniya v filosofii induizma. Moskva: URSS Editorial, 1998)
This article is published in Zilberman’s The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought.
David Zilberman Archive at the Mugar Library, Boston University, 1.3.15.
James F. Anderson in his book Reflections on the Analogy of Being, was perfectly right to mention that the list of works related to the topic of analogy contains no single book in English devoted exclusively to a fundamental philosophical study of Analogy. This situation is not much changed since 1967 when Anderson’s book was published, if we consider philosophical, rather than literary, investigations of analogy. It is noticeable that Anderson did not mention the fundamental and highly interesting book of Mary Hesse, Models and Analogies in Science (1966), since this work as well as many other valuable texts on analogy were judged to be mainly explorations of analogy in the history of science, not its philosophical analysis. It is rather curious that in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1967) one can find articles on ‘Analogy in Theology’ and ‘Models and Analogy in Science’, but no article on analogy in philosophy. An important source of philosophical knowledge concerning analogy is Rudolf Carnap’s posthumously published manuscript notes on analogy (A Basic System of Inductive Logic. Part 2. 1980), but they are notes and still need to be extended and developed. Recently the topic of analogy becomes more and more popular and even fashionable in computer science and the theory of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI analysis of analogy, according to specialists in the field, urgently needs a philosophical foreword and foundation. (David H. Heiman (ed.). Analogical Reasoning. 1989, p.142, 338)
In the fundamental Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies edited by Karl H. Potter, in the volume Indian Metaphysics and Epistemology (1977), analogy is not even mentioned, although there are several remarks on comparison. In another volume, Advaita Vedanta up to Shankara and His Pupils (1981), there are only four short comments on analogy. In another fundamental source on Indian philosophy (B.K. Matilal. Perception. An Essay on Classical Indian Theories of Knowledge. 1986) analogy is not mentioned at all. As for special texts on analogy in Indian philosophy, they are not available in English.
Zilberman, D. Pis’mo O. Genisaretskomu [Letter to O.Genisaretskij]. Undated, s.1. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.3./6.
Zilberman, D. Pis’mo G. Schedrovitskomu [Letter to G.Schedrovitskij]. October 15, 1976, s.2. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.2./6.
Zilberman. D. Letter to Prof. Thayer. July 25, 1974, p.4. Zilberman Archive, 5.2.7./1.
Zilberman, D. How Does the Metaphilosophy Appear. Unpublished Manuscript, p.1. Zilberman Archive, 2.1.13.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Zilberman, D. Pis’mo Y. levade [Letter to Y. Levada]. June 20, 1974, s.3. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.1./3.
Ibid.
Zilberman, D. Pis’mo O.Genisaretskomu [Letter to O.Genisaretskij]. Undated, s.2. Zilberman Archive, 2.1.2./12.
Zilberman. D. Pis’mo Aronu [Letter to Aron]. January 12, 1975, s.2. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.7./3.
Zilberman, D. (Pis’mo O. Genisaretskomu [Letter to O.Genisaretskij]. July 5, 1975, s.3. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.3./2.
Ibid.
Zilberman, D. Pis’mo G. Schedrovitskomu [Letter to G.Schedrovitskij]. August 15, 1975, ss. 1–2. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.2./2.
Zilberman, D. Pis’mo y. Levade [Letter to Y. Levada]. June 20, 1974, s.1. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.1/3.
Ibid.
Zilberman, D. The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought, p.12.
As Zilberman metaphorically phrases, this was reflected in the’ secondary’ (=philosophical) myth: “words initiate creation of the world when spoken by God who understands them; the effort of understanding turns words into God’s thoughts [... ]” (The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought, p.27).
Zilberman, D. Upadeśa-Sahasri, in the present volume.
Zilberman, D. ‘Revelation in Advaita-Vedānta as an Experiment in the Semantic Destruction of Language.’ In: The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought, p.222. This is especially evident in a word which does not have an empirical correlate in its habitual sense, like Brahman. Brahman is not describable; it cannot be shown by a linguistic means in a satisfactory manner since this latter is generated by Brahman and is thus never equal to It, either in scope, or in might. “It follows that nothing remains to be done for the realization of Brahman but to destroy these structures, deny reality to the significative language, transforming fragments of its reality into objects of activity of thinking about consciousness [... ] The perspective arises of a different system of concepts, divorced from the opposition: ‘activity-actuality’. In such a system, language becomes objectified activity; that is, a sequence of manipulative procedures of thinking about consciousness.” (Ibid., pp.229–230)
Zilberman, D. Po povodu ‘Antareyi-Upanishagy’ [Concerning ‘Antareya-Upani \( \underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{s} \) ad], s. 1, Zilberman Archive, 2.1.7.
Ibid.
Zilberman, David. Ocherk teorii otkroveniya (Śa \( \dot n \) karā i ego shkola) [Sketch of a Theory of Revelation (Śa \( \dot n \) karā and His School)], s.11. Zilberman Archive, 1.7.11.
Zilberman, D. Istoriya indiiskoi logiki [History of Indian Logic]., s.164. Zilberman Archive, 4.1.1./1.
Zilberman, D. Problema tradicii s posicii social’noi psyhologii [Problem of Tradition From the Position of Social Psychology], s.12. Zilberman Archive, 1.7.46.
Zilberman, D. Istoriya indiiskoi logiki, s.156.
Zilberman, D. O sociologicheskih predposylkah vozniknoveniya indiiskoi logiki [On Sociological Prerequisites of the Emergence of Indian Logic]. s.14. Zilberman Archive, 1.7.5.
Zilberman, D. Analogy in Western Philosophy: Introduction, in the present volume.
Zilberman, D. Theories of Analogy, Western and Indian, in the present volume.
Zilberman, D. Fragment o jāti [Fragment on Jāti], s.1. Zilberman Archive, 2.1.35.
Ibid., s.2.
Ibid., s.1
Ibid., s.2.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Zilberman, D. Istoriya indiiskoi logiki, s. 160.
Zilberman, D. O sociologicheskih predposylkah vozniknoveniya indiiskoi logiki, ss.32–33. Zilberman Archive, 1.7.5.
Zilberman, D. ‘Hindu Systems of Thought as Epistemic Disciplines.’ In: The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought, pp.22–23.
Ibid., p.19.
Ibid., p.22.
Ibid., pp.25–26.
Ibid., p.15.
Ibid., p.16.
Zilberman, D. Pis’mo Y.Levade [Letter to Y.Levada]. June 20, 1974, s.3. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.1./3.
Zilberman, D. History of Indian Logic, in the present volume.
Ibid.
Zilberman, D. Analogy in Western Philosophy: Introduction, in the present volume.
See Appendix 2 of this book.
Zilberman, D. Letter to Professor Kinnan, September 12, 1974, pp.1–2. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.6./3. The poem is translated by A.Hayes, in: The Poems, Prose and Plays of Alexander Pushkin. Random House, Inc., New York, 1936, p.343.
Zilberman, D. Analogy in Western Philosophy and Indian Approaches to Analogy, in the present volume.
Ibid
Zilberman, D. Approaching Discourses between Three Persons on Modal Methodology and Summa Metaphysicorum. In: Russia, N 4, 1980, Torino, p.311.
Zilberman, D. The Indian Type of Cultural Tradition, in the present volume.
Zilberman, D. O sociologicheskih predposylkah vozniknoveniya indiiskoi logiki, ss.14–16.
Phrasing the same in terms of AI theory, we can say that within classical Indian culture these analogies play a role of principal determinations, or of that fundamental prior knowledge which is discovered now (or, rather, postulated to exist) behind every significant chain of analogical reasoning. (cf. Russell, Stuart J. The Use of Knowledge in Analogy and Induction. 1989, pp.56–62)
See Appendix 1 of this book.
Zilberman, D. Pis’mo O. Genisaretskomu [Letter to O.Genisaretskij]. Undated, s.1. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.3./7.
Zilberman, D. The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought, p.47.
Zilberman, D. Pis’mo V. Lefevru [Letter to V.Lefevre]. April 11, 1975, s.1. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.4./6.
Ibid., pp.1–2.
David Zilberman. The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought, p.26.
Ibid., p.332.
Ibid., p.335.
Zilberman, D. Pis’mo G. Schedrovitskomu (Letter to G.Schedrovitskij). August, 25, 1975, p.4. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.2./3.
Zilberman, D. The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought, p.48.
Zilberman, D. Pis’mo Y. Levade [Letter to Y.Levada]. June 20, 1974, s.3a. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.1./3.
Ibid.
Ibid., s.2b.
Ibid.
Karl Potter (ed.) Indian Metaphysics and Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977, pp.98, 237, 388.
Zilberman, D. Pis’mo Y. Levade [Letter to Y.Levada]. June 20, 1974, s.2. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.1./3.
Zilberman, D. Pis’mo O. Genisaretskomu [Letter to O.Genisaretskij]. Undated, s.3a. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.3./7.
Ibid.., s.3a.
Zilberman, D. The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought, pp.51–52.
Zilberman, D. The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought, p.338.
Zilberman, D. Pis’mo V. Lefevru [Letter to V. Levebvre]. March 17, 1975, p.2. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.4./2.
Zilberman, D. The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought, p.59.
Ibid., p.339.
Zilberman, D. The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought, pp.57–58.
Ibid., p.330.
Ibid., p.33.
Zilberman, D. Pis’mo O. Genisaretskomu [Letter to O.Genisaretskij]. Undated, s.1. Zilberman Archive, 5.1.3./8.
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