On (Non-semantically) Remembering Conventions: Dharmakîrti and Dharmottara on Saôketa-kâla*

‘ … a theory of meaning for a particular language should be conceived by a philosopher as describ-ing the practice of linguistic interchange by speakers of the language without taking it as al-ready understood what it is to have a language at all: that is what, by imagining such a theory, we are trying to make explicit.’ Michael DUMMETT (2004: 31