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

Vidyabhusana Satis Chandra

ISBN 10: 8120805658 / ISBN 13: 9788120805651

Published by Motilal Banarsidass, 1988

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A little shelf wear to book and red dust jacket.Library stamp on inside front cover. Otherwise a tight, unmarked book. Index. 484 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A History of Indian Logic: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Schools
• Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8120805658
• ISBN 13: 9788120805651
• Binding: Hardcover
• Printing: 4th Printing
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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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 word ėlogicķ, 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 Vasesika and is not co-extensive with either. 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 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 on the subjects. It has drawn on original sources exhaustively. Besides the preface introduction, foreword and table of contents the work contains several appendices and indexes.

Synopsis

The work deals with the history of Indian logic with regards to Nyaya-one of the six systems into which orthodox philosophy in India is classified. The author has marked the principal stages of Indian logic, in two thousand years begining from 640 BC and has traced how from Anviksiki the science of Knowledge Prakarana or Takasastra.