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#relations
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Navya-Nyāya’s language of limitors, and what it was built to do
My MA is on Nyāya, and every few months someone tells me that Navya-Nyāya was "Indian predicate logic". I'd like to test that claim with people who know Frege better than I do. The school is usually dated from Gaṅgeśa's Tattvacintāmaṇi in…
Started by Meera Kulkarni5 replies279 views -
If syllogistic logic couldn’t handle relations, why did it last two thousand years?
I write verification tools for a living, so I live inside predicate logic. Every so often I'm reminded how much it can do that the syllogism can't. The textbook example (usually credited to De Morgan) is: all horses are animals, therefore every…
Started by Derek Hollis6 replies195 views