A History of Indian Logic: Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern Schools - Hardcover

Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8196123698 ISBN 13: 9788196123697

Publisher: Motilal Banarasidass International, 2023

Synopsis

My object in this volume is to write the history of what is called Nyaya, one of the six schools into which orthodox philosophy in India is divided. The world logic, although it is in common parlance held synonymous with Indian Nyaya, is not exactly identical with it. Logic covers some of the subjects of Nyaya as well as Vaisesika and is not co-extensive with either. Indian Logic has been differently defined in different ages but the definition generally accepted is the science which ascertains valid knowledge either by means of the six sense or by means of the five members of the syllogism : in other words, perception and inference are the subject-matter of Logic.

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The author has in this work clearly marked the principal stages of Indian logic in the vast period of about two thousand years beginning from 640 B.C. and has traced how from Anviksiki the science of debate, Indian logic developed into the science of knowledge Pramanasastra, and then into the science of dialectics Prakarana of Tarkasastra. The treatment of the subject is both historical and critical. The author has traced some Greek influence on Indian logic. For instance he has shown how the five membered syllogism of Aristotle found its way through Alexandria, Syria and other countries into Taxila and got amalgamated with the Nyaya doctrine of inference. The book is one of the pioneer works of the subject. It has drawn on original sources exhaustively. Resides the preface, introduction, forward and table of contents, the work contains several appendices and indexes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Motilal Banarasidass International
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8196123698
• ISBN 13: 9788196123697
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 648