Synopsis: : Logic in Earliest Classical India 1st Edition |
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This Book comprises seven papers delivered at a session of the World Sanskrit Conference, held in 2003 in Helsinki, Finland, entitled Logic in Early Classical India. Karin Preisendanz discusses reasoning in the early Dharma literature and traces out the various Senses of the term Nyaya in that literature in relation to the term's well- known sense in the logical literature. Ernst Pets presents the results of his investigations into the various editions, manuscripts and commentaries of the early Medical text Carakasamhita, which contains important passages pertaining to logic. The Vaisesikasutra, another early text, also contains discussions relevant to the History of logic in early classical India and Birgit Kellner addresses one form of inference mentioned in it, namely the inference from exclusion, or virodhin. Eli Franco, in his contribution, reports on the discussion of the pramanas, or Means of epistemic Cognition in a Buddhist text which survives, alas, only in fragments. These fragments are known collectively as the Spitzer Manuscript, in honor of Moritz Spitzer, who initiated the work on them. Chizuko Yoshimizu treats a brief but perplexing passage on logic from the Buddhist text Sandhi nirmocanasutra. Next, Brendan Gillon reports on a confusion of obversion and contraposition in Vatsyayana's Commentary on the Nyayasutra. Finally, Akihiko Akamatsu sheds light on a puzzle pertaining to Bhartrhari's definition of inference in the Vakyapadiya
Brendan S. Gillon is an associate professor at McGill University. In addition to his translation work in collaboration with Richard P. Hayes on key portions of the Svathanumana chapter of Dharmakiriti’s Pramanavarttika, a watershed text in the development of logic in India, he is the author of many articles on logic in early classical India as well as numerous articles on natural language semantics. He is also the coeditor of Semantics : A Reader, published by Oxford University Press (2004).
Petteri Koskikallio and Asko Parpola, Secretary General and president, respectively, of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference, are Finnish Indologists. Asko Parpola is Professor Emeritus of South Asian and Indo-European Studies at the University of Helsinki.
Contributors
1. Logic in Early Classical India : An Overview/Brendan s. Gillon
2. Reasoning as a Science, its Role in Early Dharma Literature, and the Emergence of the Term Nyaya/Karin Preisendanz
3. On the Proof Passage of the Carakasamhita : Editions, Manuscripts and Commentaries/Ernst Prets
4. The Logical Reason Called Virodhin in Vaisesika and its Significance for Connection-based Theories of Reasoning/Birgit Kellner
5. The Discussion of Pramanas in the Spitzer Manuscript/Eli Franco
6. The Logic of the Samdhinirmocanasutra : Establishing Right Reasoning Based on Similarity (Surupya) and Dissimilarity (Vairupya)/Chizuko Yoshimizu
7. Obversion and Contraposition in the Nydyabhasya/Brendan S. Gillon
8. Anumama in Bhartrhari's Vakyapadiya/Akihiko Akamatsu
1. Akihiko Akamatsu, Graduate School of Letters Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi Sakyo-ku Kyoto 6068501 Japan
2. Eli Franco, Institut fur Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften Universitat Leipzig Schillerstraβ e 6 04109 Leipzig Germany
3. Brendan S. Gillon, Department of Linguistics McGill University 1085, Avenue Docteur-Penfield Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A7 Canada
4. Birgit Kellner, Institut fur Sudasien-, Tibet-und Buddhismuskunde Universitat Wien Uni-Campus AAKH Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.7 A-1090 Wien Austria
5. Karin Preisendanz, Institut fur Sudasien-, Tibet-und Buddhismuskunde Universitat Wien Uni-Campus AAKH Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.1 A-1090 Wien Austria
6. Ernst Prets, Institut fur Kultur-und Geistesgeschichte Asiens Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Prinz Eugen Strasse 8-10 A-1040 Wien Austria
7. Chizuko Yoshimizu, Section of Philosophy Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences Tsukuba University Tsukuba-shi Tennodai 1-1-1 305-8571 Japan