Kumarila Bhatta was an Indian Sanskrit philosopher of the early medieval period and the principal exponent of the Bhatta sub-school of Mimamsa, the Vedic school of ritual exegesis and epistemology. He wrote three subcommentaries on Sabara's commentary on Jaimini's Purva Mimamsa Sutras, among them the Slokavarttika and the Tantravarttika. Working in dialogue with Buddhism, he defended the eternity and self-validity of the Vedas, the reality of the external world and the priority of action over contemplation in the path to liberation. In epistemology he argued for the intrinsic validity of cognition, holding that a cognition is valid when it is apprehended unless it is proved otherwise, and in the philosophy of language he defended a compositional view of how sentences get their meaning. His dates and birthplace are uncertain, and sources place him around the seventh or eighth century.
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Kumarila Bhatta (c. 700 - c. 750) was an Indian philosopher of the Medieval era, associated with Indian Philosophy.
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Kumarila Bhatta (c. 700 - c. 750) was an Indian philosopher of the Medieval era, associated with Indian Philosophy.
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His Slokavarttika develops original arguments in epistemology and philosophy of language that influenced not only Mimamsakas but also their Vedanta and Nyaya interlocutors.
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Kumarila Bhatta was an Indian Sanskrit philosopher and the principal exponent of the Bhatta sub-school of Mimamsa, the Vedic school of ritual exegesis and epistemology.
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Kumarila Bhatta was an Indian Sanskrit philosopher and the principal exponent of the Bhatta sub-school of Mimamsa, the Vedic school of ritual exegesis and epistemology.
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His Slokavarttika develops original arguments in epistemology and philosophy of language that influenced not only Mimamsakas but also their Vedanta and Nyaya interlocutors.
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His Slokavarttika develops original arguments in epistemology and philosophy of language that influenced not only Mimamsakas but also their Vedanta and Nyaya interlocutors.
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a scholar of Mimamsa school of philosophy from early medieval India
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