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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Philosophy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Philosophy</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Cерия: Философия</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2302</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8900</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">26668</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2302-2021-25-2-250-259</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>HISTORICAL TRADITIONS AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF THE EAST</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЕ ТРАДИЦИИ И СОВРЕМЕННАЯ ФИЛОСОФИЯ ВОСТОКА</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Bimal K. Matilal's Philosophy: Language, Realism, Dharma, and Ineffability</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Философия Бимала К. Матилала: язык, реализм, дхарма и невыразимость</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Bilimoria</surname><given-names>Purushottama</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Билимория</surname><given-names>Пурушоттама</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD, Principal Research Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne; Нead of Laboratory, Center for the Study of Indian Philosophy and Culture, RUDN University</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>PhD, профессор, Школа исторических и философских исследований, Мельбурнский университет; руководитель лаборатории, Центр изучения индийской философии и культуры, Российский университет дружбы народов</p></bio><email>p.bilimoria@unimelb.edu.au</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of Melbourne</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Мельбурнский университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">RUDN University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский университет дружбы народов</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>25</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">HISTORICAL TRADITIONS AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF THE EAST</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЕ ТРАДИЦИИ И СОВРЕМЕННАЯ ФИЛОСОФИЯ ВОСТОКА</issue-title><fpage>250</fpage><lpage>259</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-06-15"><day>15</day><month>06</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Bilimoria P.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Билимория П.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Bilimoria P.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Билимория П.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/26668">https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/26668</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The article considers the theoretical and practical consequences of the so-called "soft" version of epistemological realism in Bimal K. Matilal's philosophical project. The author offers an analytical view on Matilal's philosophy, which helps to understand it in a broader prospective, comparing his arguments on perception and objectivity with contemporary arguments in Western analytical philosophy; in fact, it is possible to view Matilal not only as the proponent of revised Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika approach, but also as the follower of realistic view on language, following L. Wittgenstein, W. Quine, H. Putnam and M. Dummett. Despite the fact that such interpretation may sound diverse or multivocal, it nevertheless helps to better understand both lineages of argumentation: the critical review of the impossibility of private language can be compared in both Western and Indian philosophical discourses, which leads into the domain of social epistemology. The second part of the article discusses the ethical arguments on the vulnerability of moral virtues, and the place of Dharma as a term in moral philosophy. Poetical and metaphorical language appears to be a fruitful strategy to discover the ineffable - and also via negativa and catuṣkoṭi - which is shown by Matilal on the example of the unacceptability of lying. The ethical ineffability and its interconnection with Matilal's commentaries on practical wisdom play the crucial part in the interpretations of Dharmaśāstra texts.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Предметом рассмотрения выступают теоретические и практические следствия так называемой «мягкой» версии эпистемологического реализма в философском проекте Бимала К. Матилала. Автор предлагает аналитический подход к интерпретации философии Матилала, что позволяет понимать ее в более широком контексте и сравнивать высказанные им аргументы о восприятии и объективности аргументы с современными аргументами в западной аналитической философии. Матилал может быть рассмотрен не только как продолжатель интеллектуальной традиции ньяя-вайшешика, но также и как сторонник реалистического подхода к трактовке языка вслед за Л. Витгенштейном, У. Куайном, Х. Патнэмом и М. Даммиттом. Несмотря на возможный эклектизм подобных воззрений, тем не менее именно такая стратегия позволяет ему стать воспреемником обеих аргументативных стратегий: критический пересмотр вопроса о невозможности приватного языка имел место и в западной, и в индийской философии, и сравнение этих подходов приводит нас в область социальной эпистемологии. Во второй части статьи рассмотрены этические аргументы об уязвимости моральных добродетелей, а также место концепта дхармы в моральной философии. Обращение к поэтическому и метафорическому языку представляется плодотворным шагом для обнаружения невыразимого, в том числе, посредством отрицания и чатускоти (тетралеммы), что продемонстрировано Матилалом на примере неприемлемости лжи. Невыразимость этического и ее взаимосвязь с практической мудростью, описанные Матилалом, играют ключевую роль в его интерпретации текстов Дхармашастры.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Bimal K. Matilal</kwd><kwd>Indian logic</kwd><kwd>Nyāya-realism</kwd><kwd>dharma</kwd><kwd>moral dilemma</kwd><kwd>theodicy</kwd><kwd>evil and ineffability doctrine</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Бимал К. Матилал</kwd><kwd>индийская логика</kwd><kwd>ньяя-реализм</kwd><kwd>дхарма</kwd><kwd>моральная дилемма</kwd><kwd>теодицея и зло</kwd><kwd>концепция невыразимости</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">The paper is realised in the frames of the Agreement between Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and Peoples' Friendship University of Russia № 075-15-2021-603 "Development of the new methodology and intellectual base for the new-generation research of Indian philosophy in correlation with the main World Philosophical Traditions».</funding-statement><funding-statement xml:lang="ru">Работа подготовлена в рамках Соглашения между Министерством образования и науки РФ и Российским университетом дружбы народов № 075-15-2021-603 по теме: «Разработка методологии и интеллектуальной базы нового поколения по изучению индийской философии в ее соотношении с другими ведущими философскими традициями Евразии»</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Garfield J et al, editors. 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