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21Application of ''H Gas Turbine''Design Technology to Increase Thermal Efficiency and Output Capability of the Mitsubishi M701G2 Gas Turbine (review)In Alan F. Blackwell & David MacKay (eds.), Power, Cambridge University Press. pp. 38--39. 2005.
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18Religious and Epistemological Aspects of the Indian Theory of Verbal UnderstandingProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 6 105-111. 2008.The various schools of the Indian classical philosophy have discussed the issue how we understand the meaning from an utterance. In the present paper, I analyse the ancient controversy on this issue between two schools, Naiyāyikas and Vaiśeṣikas, and attempt to show that it has two aspects of religious and epistemological natures. Vaiśeṣikas, on the ground that the process of the verbal understanding is identical with that of the inference, claim that the verbal understanding is merely a type of…Read more
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2Naiyāyika-s Theories of ŚabdaprāmāṇyaProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 16 119-123. 2018.Since later 1990’s, a large number of researchers of information science have engaged in the systematization of credibility assessment of online information. On the other hand, Indian philosophical tradition has a 2000-year history of discussion on credibility assessment of others’ reports, which is called śabdaprāmāṇyavāda in Sanskrit. The discussions of these two disciplines share the same interest, but their methodology is substantially different: the former is based on descriptive analysis o…Read more
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