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Bhartrhari's paradox
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Japanese Meaning
命名できないものが存在する場合、その存在を示すためには必ず何らかの方法で名前を付けなければならない、という言語学上の逆説
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The linguistic paradox that, if there are unnameable things, their existence cannot be indicated without naming them in some way.
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Bhartrhari's paradox
Bhartrhari's paradox raises the unsettling point that if there are things that cannot be named, we cannot even indicate their existence without somehow naming them.
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Bhartrhari's paradox raises the unsettling point that if there are things that cannot be named, we cannot even indicate their existence without somehow naming them.
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