Guest guest Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 --- Chittaranjan Naik <chittaranjan_naik wrote: > > To Shri Michaelji, > The word 'sublate' > > is drawn from Hegel's Logic and having been first introduced > > by Radhakrishnan is now customary. > Also, I have often wondered about the origins of the > word "sublation", and while I have been using it as an equivalent of > the word "negation", Michael - what would you suggest the word should be? It is not completely dismissing it but understanding something deeper or fundamental than what appears to be so at the outset, using higher means of knowledge or pramaaNa. We have 1) a subjective case of a mistaken snake resolving into a rope upon further inquiry and 2) an objective case of bending of a pencil or sun-raise/sunset or mirage waters. Knowledge gained upon further inquiry through higher pramaaNa taking precedence over the knowledge gathered using lower pramaaNa without dismissing completely the experience gained using lower pramaaNa. If negation or sublation were not appropriate for these, then what would you suggest? The fact remains that further inquiry resolves what we thought it is to what it is. We do have relative knowledge and absolute knowledge. For me 'sublate' and 'negate' are as good words as any as long as we understand what they really signify, without knowing anything about their connotational meanings in the western philosophy. Hari OM! Sadananda ===== What you have is destiny and what you do with what you have is self-effort. Future destiny is post destiny modified by your present action. You are not only the prisoner of your past but master of your future. - Swami Chinmayananda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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