Universals: Studies in Indian Logic and LinguisticsUniversity of Chicago Press, 23 mar 1988 - 267 páginas This 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. |
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 |
The Concept of pakṣa in Indian Logic | 129 |
Euclid and Panini | 143 |
ContextSensitive Rules in Pāņini | 171 |
Pāṇini Tested by Fowlers Automaton | 183 |
A Navya | 227 |
H Scharfe Die Logik im Mahābhāṣya | 238 |
B K Matilal Epistemology Logic and Grammar | 256 |
| 263 | |
The Theory of Definition in Indian Logic | 88 |
Negation and the Law of Contradiction in Indian | 109 |
Términos y frases comunes
Advaita anabhihite analysis anubandha applied Aristotle arthapatti axB(x ay[y Buddhist century A.D. chapter Chinese Chomsky concept context context-sensitive rules contraposition deep structure defined definition denotes derived Devadatta Dharmakirti discussed doctrines example fact fire formal logic grammar Hence hetu Indian logic Indian philosophy Indian thought inference Ingalls injunctions interpretation J. F. Staal jāti kāraka karman lakṣaṇa lakṣya language law of contradiction linguistic locus logicians Madhyamika Mahābhāṣya mathematical Matilal means metalanguage Mīmāmsā modern logic Nāgārjuna Navya-nyāya negation negative nominal noun Nyāya object occurs pakṣa Pāṇini paribhāṣā Paris paryudāsa Patanjali pratiṣedha predicate principle problems propositions quoted referred relation Renou respect restricted-variable sadhya samkara Sankara Sanskrit expressions Sanskrit grammarians sapakṣa science of ritual semantic sentence similar smoke sounds Stcherbatsky suffix sūtra symbolic syntactic tatpuruşa terminology theory tion translation underlying universals valid Vedic verb vowel Western logic words