Andhra Pradesh - Tirupati   

Importance of language in human life stressed

Special Correspondent

TIRUPATI: Philosophy should be made relevant to our problems lest it should become a `mundane affair conceptual clarification, according to Ramakrishna Rao, Chairman of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR).

He was inaugurating a two-day national seminar on `Perspectives in the philosophy of language: Indian and Western', in the SV University here on Monday.

Philosophical intricacies behind language were explored at the meet which also deliberated on the nature, objectives and importance of language in human life.

Former chief of Andhra Pradesh State Commissionerate of Higher Education and Vice-Chairman of AP State Planning Board, Prof. Rao dealt with activities of the ICPR and underlined the need for making the body inter-institutional. Prof. R.C. Pradhan, Head of the Department of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad, in his keynote address, defended the `representationist' theory of meaning. He criticised the post modernist and post-structuralist theory of meaning and emphasised that language was as much real as man and the world.

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