Abstract

This is a treatise on Logic according to the Nyaya system of Indian philosophy. But throughout, care is taken to compare the Nyaya positions with modern Logic. Starting with knowledge and language the author discusses the metaphysical basis of Logic itself and then gets down to the details of propositions, truth functions, definition, negation, and universals. Various modes of inference and induction are also dealt with. The book shows how, in spite of all the changes in human thought down the centuries, the basic problems remain the same for the ancient Nyaya and modern Symbolic Logic.—J. K.