Date of Award

1954

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Department

American Academy of Asian Studies

First Advisor

Alan Watts

First Committee Member

Haridan Chaudhury [?]

Second Committee Member

F[?] (illegible)

Abstract

A word or word group lifted from its context incurs the grave danger of a misunderstanding ranging from the greatest excess of analytical dismemberment to an overgenerous and all-inclusive synthesis which tends to rob it of any specific identity or meaning. Considered not only from within the body of textual material which may frame a particular word, but from the ground of these physical, mental and cultural needs which give it birth as well as the motivating force or forces which seem to endanger it, it may be possible to develop a better understanding of its varying harmonic nuances of meaning and its possible correlation or differences relative to other concepts or expressions.

Pages

667

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