Filologija, No. 80, 2023.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/yl4okf5np9
Philosophical Terminology in the Oldest Indian and Hellenic Philosophy: What do etymological correspondences mean?
Mislav Ježić
Abstract
In Vedic thought, especially in the Upaniṣads, ontological and physiological or cosmological (and partly also psychological or epistemological) terminology appears, with which the terminology of the pre-Socratics, and partly
up to Plato, shows etymological correspondences. Moreover, the same basic notions are repeatedly named by genetically matching terms. These can be single lexemes, but also complete corresponding grammatical forms of akin words, sometimes even cognate syntagms. Examples of complete correspondences between expressions can be supplemented with some where the correspondence is partial in expression, but complete in content. In this paper, linguistic correspondences are considered on the basis of passages mathcing in content, and an attempt is made to assess what these terminological
correspondences imply regarding the formulated thoughts, the way they were expressed, and the time of their formulation.
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306263
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Publication date:
19.7.2023.
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