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A comment on Soul Meets Body: An initial examination of the Samkhya school. Parent comment

Re:Soul Meets Body: An initial examination of the Samkhya sc... by jelliclesfarm on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:26PM (#23827265)
Are you claiming that ‘linguistic analysis’ by non Indians/Hindus at the university of Texas supersedes knowledge that was orally transmitted for aeons before linguistics as a term was even coined?
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Re:Soul Meets Body: An initial examination of the Samkhya sc... by danans on Monday July 13, 2020 @09:53PM (#23827718)
Plenty of Indians/Hindus conduct the same sort of linguistic analysis, beginning with a guy called Panini who lived around 800 BC. In any case, the nuance and depth of the arguments in the University of Texas article far supercedes the a priori (and apparently religiously nationalist) statements you are making here.

Historical linguistics is an evidence-based field of study that many Indian scholars also actively participate in, wherein they also analyze non Indian languages.

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Re:Soul Meets Body: An initial examination of the Samkhya sc... by jelliclesfarm on Monday July 13, 2020 @11:42PM (#23828281)
Where did you find ‘religiously nationalist’ statements?

I don’t understand why this has to become rude and hostile now. I don’t believe I have anything more to say to you.

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