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Contents 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 sarupya and Dissimilarity Vairupya Chizuko Yoshimizu 7 Obversion and contraposition in the Nyayabhasya Brendan S Gillon 8 Anumana in Bhartrharis Vakyapadiya Akihiko Akamatsu Index The last two decades of Indological research have led to a marked increase in the investigation of logic in India especially in the earliest period of classical India A panel of senior and junior scholars from America Asia and Europe all specialists working in this area was concerned at the 12th World Sanskrit Conference held in Helsinki in the summer of 2003 This volume contains not only their papers which address both philosophical and philological matters pertaining to logic as propounded in texts from this period but also an introduction designed to permit non specialists whether non Indologists or non philosophers to learn about Indian logic in its infancy 202 pp.…

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