A Splash of the Logical Reason: Dharmakirti's Hetubindu Translated
This volume provides the first modern translation of the recently found original Sanskrit text of Dharmakirti's Hetubindu (ca. 600 CE), the first Indian work of pure logic. The concise definitions and explanations of the central terms are enriched by several extensive digressions, such as on the pervasion (vyapti) in the proof of momentariness of entities, with his conceptions of causality, and on the nature of non-perception or negative cognition (anupalabdhi), as well as by the supplement of a refutation of Isvarasena's theorem of six characteristics for a logical reason (ṣallakṣaṇahetu). The translation aims at making the content available to specialists in Indian epistemology and also to philosophers and logicians in general who have no knowledge of classical Sanskrit. It is provided with a short introduction and a detailed structural outline.
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A Splash of the Logical Reason: Dharmakirti's Hetubindu Translated
This volume provides the first modern translation of the recently found original Sanskrit text of Dharmakirti's Hetubindu (ca. 600 CE), the first Indian work of pure logic. The concise definitions and explanations of the central terms are enriched by several extensive digressions, such as on the pervasion (vyapti) in the proof of momentariness of entities, with his conceptions of causality, and on the nature of non-perception or negative cognition (anupalabdhi), as well as by the supplement of a refutation of Isvarasena's theorem of six characteristics for a logical reason (ṣallakṣaṇahetu). The translation aims at making the content available to specialists in Indian epistemology and also to philosophers and logicians in general who have no knowledge of classical Sanskrit. It is provided with a short introduction and a detailed structural outline.
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A Splash of the Logical Reason: Dharmakirti's Hetubindu Translated

A Splash of the Logical Reason: Dharmakirti's Hetubindu Translated

by Ernst Steinkellner (Editor)
A Splash of the Logical Reason: Dharmakirti's Hetubindu Translated

A Splash of the Logical Reason: Dharmakirti's Hetubindu Translated

by Ernst Steinkellner (Editor)

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This volume provides the first modern translation of the recently found original Sanskrit text of Dharmakirti's Hetubindu (ca. 600 CE), the first Indian work of pure logic. The concise definitions and explanations of the central terms are enriched by several extensive digressions, such as on the pervasion (vyapti) in the proof of momentariness of entities, with his conceptions of causality, and on the nature of non-perception or negative cognition (anupalabdhi), as well as by the supplement of a refutation of Isvarasena's theorem of six characteristics for a logical reason (ṣallakṣaṇahetu). The translation aims at making the content available to specialists in Indian epistemology and also to philosophers and logicians in general who have no knowledge of classical Sanskrit. It is provided with a short introduction and a detailed structural outline.

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ISBN-13: 9783700192282
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Publication date: 11/14/2022
Series: Beitrage zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens , #925
Pages: 54
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)
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