Universals: Studies in Indian Logic and LinguisticsThis collection of articles and review essays, including many hard to find pieces, comprises the most important and fundamental studies of Indian logic and linguistics ever undertaken. Frits Staal is concerned with four basic questions: Are there universals of logic that transcend culture and time? Are there universals of language and linguistics? What is the nature of Indian logic? And what is the nature of Indian linguistics? By addressing these questions, Staal demonstrates that, contrary to the general assumption among Western philosophers, the classical philosophers of India were rationalists, attentive to arguments. They were in this respect unlike contemporary Western thinkers inspired by existentialism or hermeneutics, and like the ancient Chinese, Greeks, and many medieval European schoolmen, only—as Staal says—more so. Universals establishes that Asia's contributions are not only compatible with what has been produced in the West, but a necessary ingredient and an essential component of any future human science. |
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Índice
The Evidence from Indian Logic | 12 |
The Evidence from Indian Linguistics | 29 |
The Order | 32 |
Seven Reviews | 35 |
51 | |
Correlations between Language and Logic in Indian | 59 |
Formal Structures in Indian Logic | 73 |
Means of Formalization in Indian and Western Logic | 81 |
Negation and the Law of Contradiction in Indian | 109 |
The Concept of pakșa in Indian Logic | 129 |
Euclid and Pānini | 143 |
ContextSensitive Rules in Pāṇini | 179 |
A Navya | 227 |
H Scharfe Die Logik im Mahābhāșya | 238 |
B K Matilal Epistemology Logic and Grammar | 256 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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