Scripture, logic, language: essays on Dharmakirti and his Tibetan successors
"Dharmakirti, an Indian Buddhist philosopher of the seventh century, explored the nature, limits and justifications of rationality within the context of Buddhist religious and metaphysical concerns. While Dharmakirti is widely recognized for his crucial innovations in Indian logic and semantic theory, his notoriously difficult thought nonetheless remains poorly understood." "In this volume, one of the world's leading scholars of Buddhist philosophy sheds light on the interrelated topics of scri…
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- Full title :Scripture, logic, language : essays on Dharmakirti and his Tibetan successors / by Tom J.F. Tillemans.
Summary
"Dharmakirti, an Indian Buddhist philosopher of the seventh century, explored the nature, limits and justifications of rationality within the context of Buddhist religious and metaphysical concerns. While Dharmakirti is widely recognized for his crucial innovations in Indian logic and semantic theory, his notoriously difficult thought nonetheless remains poorly understood." "In this volume, one of the world's leading scholars of Buddhist philosophy sheds light on the interrelated topics of scripture, logic and language in the works of Dharmakirti and his philosophical heirs, both Indian and Tibetan."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©1999.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Wisdom Publications
- Place of Publication:Boston, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 318 pages ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0861711564, 9780861711567, 0861711572, 9780861711574
- oclc:ocm41951147
- LC Classification:B133.D484
- Dewey Decimal:181/.043
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Preface / E. Gene Smith -- Scripturally Based Argumentation -- 1. Dharmakirti, Aryadeva and Dharmapala on Scriptural Authority -- 2. How Much of a Proof is Scripturally Based Inference? -- 3. Pre-Dharmakirti Commentators on the Definition of a Thesis -- Logic -- 4. On Pararthanumana, Theses and Syllogisms -- 5. On Sapaksa -- 6. Formal and Semantic Aspects of Tibetan Buddhist Debate Logic -- 7. Dharmakirti and Tibetans on Adrsyanupalabdhihetu -- 8. What is the Svadharmin in Buddhist logic? -- 9. Is Buddhist Logic Non-classical or Deviant? -- Philosophy of Language -- 10. On the So-called Difficult Point of the Apoha Theory -- 11. What Can One Reasonably Say about Nonexistence? / Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
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