Add to ORKGDoes it make sense to employ modern logical tools for ancient philosophy? This well-known debate2 has been re-launched by the indologist Piotr Balcerowicz, questioning those who want to look at the Eastern school of Jainism with Western glasses. While plainly acknowledging the legitimacy of Balcerowicz's mistrust, the present paper wants to propose a formal reconstruction of one of the well-known parts of the Jaina philosophy, namely: the saptabhangi, i.e. the theory of sevenfold predication. Before arguing for this formalist approach to philosophy, let us return to the reasons to be reluctant at it
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We show how removing faith-based beliefs in current philosophies of classical and constructive mathe...
About 40 years ago, or perhaps even earlier, logical systems started to emerge at a breath-taking pa...
Does it make sense to employ modern logical tools for ancient philosophy? This well-known debate2 ha...
A rational interpretation is proposed for two ancient Indian logics: the Jaina saptabhaṅgī, and the ...
The characterization of truth-preserving arguments is a core issue in India and received the detaile...
In early Buddhist logic, it was standard to assume that for any state of affairs there were four pos...
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There exists a relationship between logic and world-views. Why are there different worldviews, even ...
This dissertation is a close study of how one representative premodern South Asian philosopher conce...
One logic or many? I say—many. Or rather, I say there is one logic for each way of specifying the cl...
We show how removing faith-based beliefs in current philosophies of classical and constructive mathe...
About 40 years ago, or perhaps even earlier, logical systems started to emerge at a breath-taking pa...
Does it make sense to employ modern logical tools for ancient philosophy? This well-known debate2 ha...
A rational interpretation is proposed for two ancient Indian logics: the Jaina saptabhaṅgī, and the ...
The characterization of truth-preserving arguments is a core issue in India and received the detaile...
In early Buddhist logic, it was standard to assume that for any state of affairs there were four pos...
Buddhist philosophers have investigated the techniques and methodologies of debate and argumentation...
Buddhist philosophers have developed a rich tradition of logic. Buddhist material on logic that form...
The sphere (gocara) in which Buddhahood abides is the Absolute Reality (paramārtha) which surpasses ...
Standard responses to the question of the nature of logic can be broadly classified into two, namely...
The most significant and intriguing Jaina contribution to Indian philosophical heritage is beyond do...
There exists a relationship between logic and world-views. Why are there different worldviews, even ...
This dissertation is a close study of how one representative premodern South Asian philosopher conce...
One logic or many? I say—many. Or rather, I say there is one logic for each way of specifying the cl...
We show how removing faith-based beliefs in current philosophies of classical and constructive mathe...
About 40 years ago, or perhaps even earlier, logical systems started to emerge at a breath-taking pa...