Paññatti means “to establish conventions” to characterize things in this world so that people can communicate among themselves.
- Each language has assigned “names” for things, time, etc.
- One can get a basic idea of how to assign time by reading the “Niruttipatha Sutta (SN 22.62).”
- Another set of examples is in the “Mahānidāna Sutta (DN 15).” Here, “paññāyethā” means “without such assignments, one cannot provide meaning to a word like “adhivacana samphasso” or “paṭigha samphasso.”
