The contributors include well known Buddhologists and logicians from Austria, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Taiwan and the United States.
(1) Which methods should be applied studies so-called non-Western logic? How can one avoid reading 'Western' notions into 'Eastern' texts? How important contextualization? (Kellner/Uckelman, Lenk, Paul) Are there universally valid logical laws? I.e. laws which are valid for all members the species homo sapiens? (Lenk, Paul)
If there are such laws, what would this mean for interpreting or re-constructing 'non-Western' logic? (Paul)
(4) What about the relation between language and logic, especially Greek, Sanskrit and Chinese the one hand and Aristotelian logic and logic in Buddhist scholasticism the other? (Lenk, Gillon) What are the specific features of Nagarjuna's disputation method(s)? And how are these features be described and evaluated from e.g. meta-logical points of view?
What the relation between Dignägean and Dharmakirtean logic(s)?
(Steinkellner, ZHENG, TANG) Does the logic in early Chinese Buddhist texts, yinming and inmyo differ significantly from the logic in hetuvidya? If so, in which respects do they differ and why? And which sense are the differences relevant? (LIN, LI, ZHENG, Paul, TANG)
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