Indian philosopher and grammarian who developed the philosophy of language as metaphysics — language (sabdabrahman) is the ultimate reality — and the sphota doctrine: the sentence as an indivisible unit of meaning.
Sphota: the sentence (not the word) is the primary unit of meaning, and it is an indivisible eternal entity; the sequence of sounds heard is not the sphota but its manifestation. Sabdabrahman: ultimate reality is linguistic in nature — Brahman manifests as language. Anticipated holism about sentence meaning.
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