In contrast, Śālikanātha's solution is that words connect and convey an already connected meaning (that is not identical to the sheer sum of individual word meanings).
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Why is the latter theory wrong? Because if the words conveyed only their own meanings, then their expressive power would be exhausted by conveying those meanings alone and the sentence-meaning would not be achieved.
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For Kumārila, language is hierarchically organised. A single word (the finite verbal ending) is connected directly to the results, the others are connected with the verbal ending. A sentence has a single goal.
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Kumārila comes to this conclusion through the fact that "[she] cooks" can be paraphrased as "[she] does the cooking", where "cooking" corresponds to the verbal root and "does" corresponds to the verbal ending.
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