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The apoha-theory which aroused much controversy concerning the meaning of the word among the Indian philosophers in the classical period was first expounded by Dignāga in his Pramānasamuccaya.
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E. Frauwallner, Dignaga sein Werk und seine Entwicklung WZKSO, III (1959) p. 102
K.A. Subramanya Aiyar, ’Pratibha as the meaning of a sentence,’ Proceedings and transactions of the Tenth All-India Oriental Conference, Madras 1941, pp. 326 - 332
Gaurinath Sastri, The Philosophy of Word and Meaning, Calcutta: Sanskrit College, 1959, pp. 244 - 264
S. Ruegg, Contributions a l’histoire de la philosophie linguistique Indienne, Paris 1959, p. 77
M. Biardeau, Theorie de la connaissance et philosophie de la parole dans le brahmanisme classique, Paris - La Haye 1964, p. 315
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Hattori, M. (1979). Apoha and Pratibhā. In: Nagatomi, M., Matilal, B.K., Masson, J.M., Dimock, E.C. (eds) Sanskrit and Indian Studies. Studies of Classical India, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8941-2_4
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