Book Title: Applied Philosophy of Anekanta
Author(s): Shashiprajna Samni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati Institute

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________________ language and reality. Now, Derrida approves that when I speak something, I intend to mean something, that is application of my use of language. How the hearer understands my meaning is a main.cause of successful communication. So the meaning is determined by the intention of the speaker. Again each speaker uses sentences in a particular context. So two things are important for understanding any language. They are, the intention of the speaker and the context in which one utters a particular sentence. He says, "Context is determined by the intention and position of the speaker.” Thus Austin concludes, speakers control over intention and context is what is called "total context.” Unless there is total context, there will be no communication. Total context represents the ideal condition of successful communication. Total context is nothing but a state where the hearer understands the intention of the speaker completely. Thus, Austin by emphasizing again on this self identical meaning, he is stepping back to the tradition of language and reality. According to Austin, context is fixed by speaker. According to the Derridean Deconstruction, context is not fixed. He says, context is never absolutely determinable or the formation of context is never final and saturated. .. The problem of word-meaning and the problem of synonymy is an illustrative issue in Western Post-modern philosophy. There is no one or 'the meaning of any word. No two words can have a similar meaning in two different contexts. One cannot determine the meaning of a particular word absolutely. All the meanings of the similar words changes, according to the respective contexts. This is indeed, the reason why the verbal view point, which is mainly concerned with the philosophy of word, meaning and propositions, occupies an important place in the Jaina doctrine of naya.' So naya is a partial standpoint, Acārya Mahāprajna. New Dimensions In Logic. Ladnun: Jain Vishva Bharati, 1984, p. 59. 121

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