//shrih// vaco-vinyaasa-vaicitryam

Dear Friends !

Is there any semblance between sentence and sentience ? Our sentences are obviously homosapient and so also our sentience is.Our peculiar sentience engenders and definitively shapes our peculiar sentences for communication either with the external world in overtly verbal form or in covertly verbal form while dealing with oneself,that is when we think,we of course think in language.This is a very peculiar phenomenon which calls for a philosophical explanation.

Is sentence a form of sentience or even sentience itself ! Philosophers vary in their positions and related arguments.Kumaarila distinguishes between a vikalpa and a shabda and both to be generating each other.Both are essentially the same as averred by another realist Naiyaayika.The advaitin would put it all back to cit or sentience better put as consciousness.Bhartrihari does the same thing.But then this knower-known paradigm one couldn't in the ultimate count reject and that is just what is the position of the Advaita Shaivaagama of Kashmir and tacitly as though this is admitted by the Naiyaayikas although with their admitted unimpeachable realistic dualistic position.

And can we differentiate sentience from consciousness per se,taking the former in the sense of
a particular individualised homosapient or otherwise consciouness and the later as the universal base of it,which may help us in philosophising more accurately ?

Surendra