Scripture, logic, language : essays on Dharmakirti and his Tibetan successors /

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Author / Creator:Tillemans, Tom J. F.
Imprint:Boston, Mass. : Wisdom Publications, c1999.
Description:xvi, 318 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4219907
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ISBN:0861711564 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-300) and index.
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.