| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:person 
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                                | gptkbp:almaMater | gptkb:University_of_Oxford gptkb:University_of_Calcutta
 
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                                | gptkbp:awards | gptkb:Fellow_of_the_British_Academy gptkb:Padma_Bhushan
 
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                                | gptkbp:birthDate | 1935-06-01 
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                                | gptkbp:birthPlace | Jaynagar Majilpur, West Bengal, India 
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                                | gptkbp:deathDate | 1991-06-08 
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                                | gptkbp:deathPlace | gptkb:Oxford,_England 
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                                | gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor | gptkb:W._D._Ross gptkb:P._T._Raju
 
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                                | gptkbp:editor | Journal of Indian Philosophy 
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                                | gptkbp:field | gptkb:Upanishads gptkb:logic
 gptkb:philosophy
 analytic philosophy
 
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                                | gptkbp:influenced | Jonardon Ganeri Arindam Chakrabarti
 Philosophers of Indian logic
 
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                                | gptkbp:influencedBy | gptkb:Dignāga gptkb:Gangesha
 gptkb:W._D._Ross
 gptkb:Dharmakīrti
 gptkb:P._T._Raju
 
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                                | gptkbp:language | gptkb:Bengali gptkb:Sanskrit
 English
 
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                                | gptkbp:mainInterest | gptkb:Upanishads gptkb:Epistemology
 gptkb:Philosophy_of_language
 gptkb:Navya-Nyāya
 Comparative philosophy
 
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                                | gptkbp:nationality | gptkb:Indian 
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                                | gptkbp:notableWork | Perception: An Essay on Classical Indian Theories of Knowledge Epistemology, Logic, and Grammar in Indian Philosophical Analysis
 The Word and the World: India's Contribution to the Study of Language
 The Navya-Nyāya Doctrine of Negation
 Logic, Language and Reality: Indian Philosophy and Contemporary Issues
 
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                                | gptkbp:occupation | gptkb:author gptkb:academic
 gptkb:philosopher
 
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                                | gptkbp:position | Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics, University of Oxford 
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                                | gptkbp:spouse | Ishani Matilal 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Time,_Fate_and_Freedom gptkb:Motilal_Banarsidass
 gptkb:The_World_as_Appearance
 gptkb:Matilal
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 8 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | Bimal Krishna Matilal 
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