New member introduction: shrI Gerald Penn

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Ravisankar S. Mayavaram wrote:

>   My name is Gerald Penn.  I work as a research scientist at University of
> Tuebingen, in the areas of mathematical logic, philosophy of language and
> computer science.  I am particularly interested in the contributions of
> advaita to the areas of epistemology and grammar.
>

As far as I know, Advaita Vedanta didn't contribute a lot to those fields.
Rather, they adopted the positions of the Bhatta Mimamsakas almost lock
stock and barrel.  A contemporary of Shankaracharya who later became  his
pupil, Mandana Mishra, combined some details of the sphotavada of the
Grammarians with Advaita Vedanta but this never really went anywhere.

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>