The Elephant's Footprint: An Ancient Indian Logic Diagram
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Ancient Indian Logic and Analogy
B.K.Matilal, and earlier J.F.Staal, have suggested a reading of the ‘Nyāya five limb schema’ (also sometimes referred to as the Indian Schema or Hindu Syllogism) from Gotama’s Nyāya-Sūtra in terms of a binary occurrence relation. In this paper we provide a rational justification of a version of this reading as Analogical Reasoning within the framework of Polyadic Pure Inductive Logic.
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عنوان ژورنال: Studia Orientalia Electronica
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2323-5209
DOI: 10.23993/store.70098