Yes. All the more reason why the contributions of all these great
inventors/discoverers (Dalton, Thompson and Panini) are to be lauded
without regard to national origin.
As one data point, J. J. Thompson won the Nobel Prize for Physics in
1906 (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1906/).
Panini would have won the leading prize of his day had there been
institutions and institutional recognition in his time.
I don't know what philosophical contributions it is that you are
referring to, but generally, Indians don't figure prominently in
all-time lists of influential philosophers. Would you say that this list
is inaccurate? And to put the ball further in your court : what may have
been the reason for the non-inclusion of, say, Sankara in this list?
http://www.thoughts.com/herman_bergson/the-100-philosophers-list
Anand
--- In [email protected], Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@...>
wrote:
>
> Anand Manikutty [27/03/11 16:04 -0700]:
> >considered generally speculative. The ideas in mathematics and
linguistics are,
> >however, well grounded and rightfully acclaimed.
>
> and rightly so - but then mathematics and linguistics are much more
> scientific, certainly far less abstract, than philosophy
>
> grounded in reality, at least.
>
