The sanskrit of science

Staal, Frits

doi:10.1007/bf01062067

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“…For 'the great movement of intercourse between India and South-east Asia', Needham could, in 1959, only refer to Grousset and Wales which were about to be outdated by a much more monumental and conclusive contribution: Coede`s (1964), itself in due course supplemented by numerous more recent publications. (Staal, 1995a;Yano, 2006, (this volume))? Was it to add the prestige of the science of language to the humdrum activity of mathematical calculation?…”

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“…It is in prose, unlike, e.g., the poetic expressions used by some later Indian mathematicians (the Vedic geometers, who were contemporaries of P" an : ini, used s" utra prose). The subject is familiar to readers of the Journal of Indian Philosophy, who may also refer to an earlier and more Sanskritic article in this Journal (Staal, 1995a) where the demonstration that P" an : ini created an artificial language is given in greater detail than in the slightly idealized form in which it will be presented here.…”

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“…It is true that we, today, can easily read them into Newton's words, but we do so by hindsight (Truesdell, 1968: 167). I concluded that the so-called 'European' revolution was not a product of Europe or of world history, but was triggered by the introduction of formulas and equations that were easy to understand, independent of the varieties and vagaries of natural languages, and led to a language that is universal (Staal, 1995a(Staal, , 2003b(Staal, , 2004. My third conclusion is that the revolution in physics and mathematics that took place in Europe was a revolution in language.…”

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Artificial Languages Across Sciences and Civilizations

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2006

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2006

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“…ini, already classifies sounds by phonetic criteria that can be interpreted as phonological features (cf. the elaborated varga system of the sparśas as described in Deshpande, 1995;Staal, 1995). In his grammar, Pān .…”

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On the Generalizability of Pāṇini’s Pratyāhāra-Technique to Other Languages

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2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Pān . ini defines the sound classes involved in grammatical rules by pratyāhāras, i.e., a two-letter code based on the order of the sounds in theŚivasūtras. In the present paper we demonstrate that Pān . ini's pratyāhāra method is generalizable to the description of the phonological systems of other languages by applying it to the sound classes and phonological alternations of German. Furthermore, we compare Pān . ini's pratyāhāra technique with the technique of describing phonological classes by phonological features, which is more common in Western phonology. It turns out that pratyāhāras perform better than features for the description of our sample of German phonological processes if one considers the quality criterion for class-description devices proposed by Kornai (1993) which is based on the ratio of describable to actual classes.

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“…See FritsStaal's (1995) wide-ranging study of scientific Sanskrit as utilised in several disciplines, including mathematics.…”

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