The present paper highlights K.C. Bhattacharya's concept of philosophy. The study of philosophy is the understanding of the speakable. There are propositions and judgments which can not be literally said to be spoken, e.g. a square circle, son of a barren women, horms of the hare etc. These are not speakable and are also not believed. Therefore, propositions and judgments which are not speakable do not come under the province of philosophical study. But the judgments and prepositions which refer to the self-subsistence of objects, the subject, and the Absolute are speakable though they are not literally thinkable or usable but they come under the scope of philosophical study. Theoretic consciousness is belief in a speakable content involving belief in a content as known but is at least understood as pointing to what is believed to be known. In science, the content is spoken liternlly and is just the content of that is believed to be known and is as such actually known. In philosophy, the content is spoken as at least particularly symbolised. According to Bhattacharya philosophy is not related with facts, they are not empirical judgments. Generally it is assumed that the function of philosophy is to create a common (world vision) vision but Bhattacharya never accepted this view. Then the question arises, what is the nature of philosophical judgment? What function do they perform? As a response to the above questions Prof. Bhattacharya propounds his philosophy of Theoretic consciousness
The Concept of philosophy is the most comprehensive and perhaps the best paper of Prof. K.C. Bhattacharya, which represents in a shortest possible compass the central tenets of his philosophical understanding.
